In-app-propriate advice?

Dr Ellie Mein MDU medico-legal adviser
With so many medical and healthcare apps on offer to patients, what factors should doctors consider? Dr Ellie Mein uploads some advice.

An obvious concern with inaccurate or misleading information given via health apps is the potential to raise patients' anxieties unnecessarily

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Dr Ellie Mein
Medico-legal adviser

MB ChB MRCOphth GDL LLM Ellie joined the MDU as a medico-legal adviser in 2013. Prior to this she worked as an ophthalmologist before completing her Graduate Diploma in Law in Birmingham.