Physician social media behavior: 7 things to know

Becker's Healthcare August 31, 2023
Claire Wallace

Seventy-five percent of physicians have seen other physicians make inappropriate comments on social media, whether they be about themselves, friends or politics, according to Medscape’s 2023 “Physician Behavior” report, published Aug. 30.

Here are six additional things to know about physicians’ social media behavior:

1. The most common inappropriate physician social media behaviors include posting inappropriate comments about patients (40 percent), posting inappropriate pictures of themselves (33 percent), posting inappropriate pictures of patients (18 percent) and posting sexually suggestive material (18 percent).

2. Physicians most commonly misbehave on Facebook (50 percent), followed by Instagram (16 percent), Twitter (11 percent), TikTok (3 percent) and Snapchat (1 percent).

3. Forty-four percent of millennial physicians believe it is acceptable...

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