title: The e-patient and medical students.
abstract: The recent publicity around the tragic case of Bronte Doyne has highlighted a pressing need in healthcare delivery: the need for doctors to know that their patients, "e-patients," know medicine. In turn, this requires our medical students to be trained in how best to utilise the potential of e-patients in healthcare delivery. "I can't begin to tell you how it feels to have to tell an oncologist they are wrong, it's a young person's cancer. I had to, I'm fed up of trusting them." - Bronte Doyne (Vize 2015).
authors.affiliation: a Sultan Qaboos University , Sultanate of Oman.
authors.forename: Ken
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Masters
mesh_terms: D054626:Consumer Health Information / Q000379:methods; D004501:Education, Medical; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D010358:Patient Participation / Q000379:methods*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D013337:Students, Medical