Doctors online – when the personal and professional collide: a proposed model to cope with the status quo (Preprint)

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.2196/preprints.17439 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Rajendra Shepherd

Keyword(s):

Status Quo ◽

Two Dimensions ◽

Medical Professionalism ◽

Online Environment ◽

Current Definition ◽

Public Expectations ◽

Public Acceptability ◽

Proposed Model ◽

The Status ◽

Personal Disclosure

UNSTRUCTURED The online environment has created a need to define online medical professionalism. Its current definition is complicated by advice in tension with public expectations. This paper surveys the advice and offers a model that postulates the online space as having a personal-professional duality. The model accommodates the concept of phases: totally ‘private’, totally ‘professional’ or ‘private-professional’ shifted by societal pressures. I argue that the model works along two dimensions – that of Information to Advice (I-A) and personal disclosure (PD) – and that a doctor should consider whether her post is likely to be seen as ‘general’ or ‘expert’ to better predict public acceptability.

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Prawo małoletnich do wolności od hazardu, uzależnienia od Internetu i gier komputerowych

Rocznik Administracji Publicznej ◽

10.4467/24497800rap.20.003.12897 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

pp. 47-75

Author(s):

Wioletta Pawska

Keyword(s):

Sense Of Belonging ◽

Status Quo ◽

The Internet ◽

Gaming Addiction ◽

Online Environment ◽

Parents And Children ◽

The Status ◽

Legislative Changes ◽

The Right

The Right of Minors to Freedom from Gambling and Internet andGaming Addition The aim of the article is to highlight the dangers of gambling and Internet and gaming addiction of minors and young persons. The author is convinced that in the absence of positive legislative changes and if creators of games engaging young persons in gaming are not punished, children will not be safe in the online environment. There will not have any other lives than those in the games they play. Additionally, the most important thing is the role of the parents, guardians and teachers. They should talk to children about the problem, show them the dangers and organise better their free time – in an educational and carefree way. In accordance with the obligatory rules of custody, they should ensure them suitable development, safety and a sense of belonging. The teachers ought to support these activities. Summarising, if the status quo continues to be tolerated, minors and young person’s will be deprived of carefree life and suffer from harm and even sudden deaths. The author is sure that parents and children do not give enough attention to that and we should not take away from young person’s the joy of simple things letting them play in the Internet instead.

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