NEJM January 31, 2023
Garth Graham, MD, MPH, FACP, FACC and Thomas H. Lee, MD, MSc

Health care does not begin when someone walks in the door of their doctor’s office, but when they search online for videos and articles and then act on that information — whether good or bad.

Summary

The Director and Global Head of Healthcare and Public Health and Head of YouTube Health at Google discusses the seriousness of health misinformation on the Internet and how it can lead people to bad health outcomes; what YouTube is doing to combat that misinformation; and how clinicians can all be part of the health information ecosystem by flooding the Web with good, evidence-based, engaging content that empowers people to make better health care decisions.

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