How Much Sharing Is Too Much When It Comes To Physicians On Twitter?

Fairly or unfairly, doctors are usually held to a higher moral standard than most people – and that applies to tweeting doctors as well. So when a doc bears all on Twitter about a patient’s embarrassing condition, you have to wonder whether it’s just a person letting off some steam after work, or an unethical move from a professional in a sensitive work environment.

33charts.com, a social media blog written by an MD, found an incident of a doctor tweeting about her patients.

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