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Case Study 01
An FY1 doctor is very tired at the end of a nightshift. Her registrar, with whom she had a few run-ins, makes a prescribing mistake, so she picks up her iPhone & tweets ‘my registrar is hopeless #prescribingerror’ Questions: - Is tweeting like this appropriate behaviour? If not, why not? - Are there any alternative approaches to dealing with this?

Case Study 02
It is payday, and the St Elsewhere Foundation doctors all go out together to a local restaurant. They have a great time, and at the end of the night, one of the doctors tweets a picture of 3 doctors slumped in the corner, with the caption ‘St Elsewhere Foundation doctors on the lash #verydrunk’n Questions: - Is tweeting like this appropriate behaviour? If not, why not? - Where are the boundaries between appropriate and inappropriate behaviour for doctors in public? Case Studies Home Content Glossary Help Back Next