Facebook Profile Helps Save Patient's Life
Doctors at a Wisconsin hospital were able to save a woman's life with the information she'd posted on her Facebook account.
A patient’s Facebook profile supplied her doctors with enough information to save her life.
According to an AOL opinion article co-authored by Dr. Kamal Thaparm, the neurosurgeon who saved her life at Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, data from this patient’s Facebook account offered more details about her health than her medical records.
The patient, a 56-year-old single mother, fell into a coma after suffering a massive stroke that caused paralysis, and doctors had determined she’d had prior strokes plus fluid around her heart.
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