Physicians can use social media to combat medical misinformation that spreads through it, according to a speaker at the Osteopathic Medical Education Conference.
Owais Durrani, DO, an emergency medicine physician at Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston, gave a presentation on social media and medical misinformation at the American Osteopathic Association’s annual conference.
Durrani told Healio the current landscape of medical misinformation can be widespread and scary for physicians.
“I think the role of social media is kind of magnifying this,” Durrani said. “Traditionally,