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being ostracized by other medical students for asking questions (due to the medical content being confusing for some students) through social media networks (Facebook bullying), phone, or in person. One study showed that the medical faculty was the faculty in which students were most commonly mistreated. [28] Bullying extends to postgraduate ...
MeToo has encouraged discussion about sexual harassment in the medical field. [65] [227] [228] Research had indicated that among U.S. academic medical faculty members, about 30% of women and 4% of men have reported experiencing sexual harassment, and it has been noted that medical staff who complain often receive negative consequences to their ...
PatientsLikeMe launched its first online community for ALS patients in 2006. [7] From there, the company began adding other communities for other life-changing conditions, including multiple sclerosis (MS), Parkinson's disease, fibromyalgia, HIV, chronic fatigue syndrome, mood disorders, epilepsy, [8] organ transplantation, progressive supranuclear palsy, multiple system atrophy, and Devic's ...
While sexual harassment is a form of workplace harassment, the United States Department of Labor defines workplace harassment as being more than just sexual harassment. [10] "It may entail quid pro quo harassment, which occurs in cases in which employment decisions or treatment are based on submission to or rejection of unwelcome conduct ...
According to Einarsen, Hoel, Zapf and Cooper, [9] "Bullying at work means harassing, offending, socially excluding someone or negatively affecting someone's work tasks. In order for the label bullying (or mobbing) to be applied to a particular activity, interaction or process it has to occur repeatedly and regularly (e.g. weekly) and over a ...
Trusera was a Seattle-based social networking startup founded in 2007 by Keith Schorsch, a former Amazon executive. [4] Schorsch's struggle with Lyme disease in 2004 inspired him to create Trusera, [5] a place where users can access information from people who have had similar medical experiences. [6]
HealthBoards [1] is a long-running social networking support group website. It consists of over 280 Internet message boards for patient to patient health support (also referred to as a virtual community or an online health community). HealthBoards was one of the first stand alone health community websites.
In April 2018, an Inspire data scientist was an author of a Nature Genetics correspondence [16] about ways to close the"terminology gap" between medical professionals and patients. Also in 2018, Inspire collaborated with ProPublica and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in research that led to a paper in the Journal of Oncology Practice .