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Providing a Tool for Physicians to Educate Patients
The JAMA Patient Page
Richard M. Glass, MD;
Jeff Molter;
Mi Young Hwang, MSJ
JAMA. 1998;279:1309.
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The public has a strong interest in medical and health news. A recent survey for the National Health Council1 found that three quarters of Americans pay a "moderate amount" or a "great deal" of attention to medical and health news. Many survey respondents said the media do a good (47%) or excellent (5%) job of reporting medical and health news, but others rated the overall quality of health and medical news as only "fair" (37%) or even "poor" (9%), with concerns about the credibility of news sources; biased, sensational, or inaccurate coverage; and contradictory or confusing stories. Another noteworthy finding from the survey was that physicians were by far the most common resource for further information about medical news reports.
Articles published in THE JOURNAL constitute a major source of medical news stories for the public. We intend that our . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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