Daliah Wachs
Touro University, USA
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Health Edu Res Dev
We�re leaders, managers, teachers, employers, advocates, and if we have any spare time left, we provide patient care. Yet the care and education we wish to provide is not easily accepted as it once was. Before Google, Twitter, Facebook, network television, what we expressed to our patients was accepted and instructions were followed. Today, patients will consult their smartphones and tablets before deciding to call the medical office. And the message our patients receive will differ from one news outlet to the next depending on what is being broadcast, covered or biased. From a time when what we said was taken as law to now being second guessed, medical providers today struggle to teach and care for our patients. So how do we consistently get our message out? How do we compete in a digital world? Compounding this problem is the fact that society has become used to instant gratification. We don�t wait for food to thaw, or wait for a letter or wait for a song to play on the radio�.. Fast food, emails, texts and entertainment come to us instantly. Unfortunately, our patients expect healthcare to be delivered at the same speed. Society demands will not revert back to the olden days, and health care providers today need to deliver a message that competes with social media, and deliver care quicker than it ever has been delivered. Medical professionals today are leaders, teachers, and health providers. But we may also need to tap in our broadcasting, networking and computer skills when it comes to communicating in this new digital era.
Email: doctordaliah@hotmail.com
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