title: Social media and interpersonal relationships: for better or worse?
abstract: Social media challenge--or have already redefined--conventional boundaries of public and private, personal and professional, friendship, and social relations generally. Here, I consider how these developments may affect professionalism, the physician-patient relationship, and our cultural experiences in a wholly different and unexpected way.
authors.forename: Norman
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Quist
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees; D000574:American Medical Association; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000941:ethics*; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics; D010820:Physicians / Q000941:ethics*; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012931:Social Environment; D035502:Trust; D014481:United States