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Practicing medicine is teamwork. While 86 % of medical professionals use the Internet to access health information, 92 % of them access it from their office [1]; and 71 % of them use community sites [2]. One of the main reasons for using a community sites is that the person with the right answer for our question is not always present in the clinical setting therefore turning to the online world is a fast and potentially accurate alternative.
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Meskó, B. (2013). Community Sites: Facebook, Google+ and Medical Social Networks. In: Social Media in Clinical Practice. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4306-2_4
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