Treating Patients with Respect

Readers of this blog know that I admire Randy Cohen's "The Ethicist" column in the New York Times Magazine. Yesterday Randy re...

Commercial Threats to Social Networking Among Patients

Fourteen months ago I wrote a post about PatientsLikeMe.com , a startup social networking site, that enabled patients with disorders like A...

Suicide and the Internet

On April 23, G. Paul Beaumaster, Prosecuting Attorney in Rice County Minnesota, filed a complaint against William Francis Melchert-Dinkel, f...

Google, Facebook, and a Suicidal Patient

A recent Washington Post article posed a fascinating ethical question about psychotherapists and the web: As his patient lay unconscious in...

Facebook, Psychotherapy, and Professional Ethics

Melinda Lewis, who teaches Social Work at the University of Kansas, raised fascinating questions about social media and social work ethics o...

Facebook Friends, Judges, and Conflict of Interest

Florida's Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee was recently asked the following question: Whether a judge may add lawyers who may appear b...

Should Therapists Snoop in Their Patient's Facebook Site?

A colleague recently asked me this question: What do you think about therapists going to a patient's Facebook site if that site is open ...

Patients, Social Networking, and Moral Complexity

While returning to Boston from New York on Amtrak yesterday, I read a fascinating New York Times article about an internet startup - "...