From http://www.healthcareitnews.com/

Twitter will soon be an essential tool for medical practices according to a poll conducted by Case Western University, an independent research university in Cleveland.

Fifty-nine percent of those who participated in the poll voted "yes" that Twitter would become an integral part of the way doctors communicate with patients and other medical professionals.

Although more doctors may be using the service, they are not necessarily using it to give patients advice.

"I was a clinical assistant professor of medicine at CWRU until 2008, and I think it is great that the university community shows an active interest in social media services such as Twitter... That said, I am yet to ask medical questions on Twitter and generally do not answer clinical queries from patients there," said Ves Dimov, MD, founder of ClinicalCases.org, an online case-based curriculum of clinical medicine, in a blog.

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