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Sharing Information and Interests on the Internet

Richard Peters, MD, PhD; Robert Sikorski, MD, PhD

JAMA. 1997;277(15):1258-1260.

Abstract
A 65-year-old man with newly diagnosed Alzheimer disease comes to a physician's office with several members of his family. The family is apprehensive about what to expect in the coming months and unsure of whether they can take care of the patient at home. The patient's son says that he has been subscribing to an Internet newsgroup on Alzheimer disease to find out more about his father's illness. He asks the physician what she thinks about receiving advice through online forums.

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass (Dr Peters; e-mail: rhp@solvig.med.harvard.edu); and the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Md (Dr Sikorski; e-mail: rss@nchgr.nih.gov).

Footnotes
Edited by William M. Silberg, Editorial Director, New Media Office, AMA Scientific Information and Multimedia Group.

Mention of a Web site, company, or product in this article or the accompanying table does not imply endorsement by the authors, editors, JAMA, or the American Medical Association.

Corresponding author: Richard Peters, MD, PhD, Department of Medicine, Wang Building, ACC-1, Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114.

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