Please leave your phone outside: policymakers and medical app providers are encouraging patient participation, but doctors in the consult room are not
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INTRODUCTION Innovative medical apps are developing apace and being recommended to patients by clinicians, yet patients’ pre-existing and autonomous engagement with internet information is not widely accepted into the consultation. Mainstream medical practice has not yet adapted to the ubiquitous use of the internet by patients. In failing to embrace the internet-informed patient (IIP), the medical community fails to maximise the learning opportunities that accessible, high-quality information offers patients. It also fails to support doctors who are frustrated or overwhelmed by the IIP. Most critically, this means we fail to provide truly patientcentred care; the patient’s decision to search for information, the types and amount of information obtained and choice to discuss this information with a doctor reveal a great deal about what matters to the patient.
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