I’m a 3rd year medical student and I’ve already been caught off-guard a few times by the WILD medical misinformation my patients talk about, and figured that I should probably get ahead of it so that I can have some kind of response prepared. (Or know what the hell they’ve OD’d on or taken that is interfering with their actual medications)
I’m setting up a dummy tablet with a new account that isn’t tied to me in any reasonable way to collect medical misinformation from. I’m looking at adding tik tok, instagram, twitter, reddit, and facebook accounts to train the algorithms to show medical misinformation. Are there any other social media apps or websites I should add to scrape for medical misinformation?
Also, any pointers on which accounts to look for on those apps to get started? I have an instagram account for my artwork and one for sharing accurate medical information, but I’ve trained my personal algorithm to not show me all the complete bullshit for the sake of my blood pressure. (And I have never used tik tok before, so I have no goddamn clue how that app works)
Not a doctor but I’d love this as well. I’ve seen various assorted noctors and nurses and other patients spout some shit that was so wildly off base I couldn’t even imagine how this came about or was even believable in the slightest.
I remember the one time a really good nurse told me how I “seemed alright” because I was decently informed on my condition and asked appropriate questions and it’s been in the back of my head ever since how she thought it was a noteworthy exception to the norm that she could somewhat trust me.