Unprofessional TikTok medical videos ‘not the norm review
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PART ONE: ESSAY ANALYSIS (40 marks)
Read the following article “Unprofessional TikTok medical videos ‘not the norm’” and answer ALL of the questions below. A glossary has been provided at the end of the article to help you with the vocabulary.
QUESTIONS:
- Write an extended definition of the term “medical misinformation” in around 150 words. (20 marks)
AND
- According to paragraph 12, some people have criticised that medics should not use music videos to deliver serious messages about health. Refute this viewpoint based on your understanding of the text and your personal experience. Write about 150 words. (20 marks)
Unprofessional TikTok medical videos ‘not the norm’
Abridged and adapted from BBC News
By Georgina Rannard
18 January, 2020
URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-51149991
- Viral1 videos made by US doctors and nurses made headlines this week after they were accused of being unprofessional and spreading misinformation.[unique_solution]
- One now-deleted TikTok (a social media platform popular with teens) video featured a nurse telling her followers that the way to avoid STIs2 was to abstain3 from sex before marriage.
- Some videos spread to other platforms, including Twitter, and received millions of views.
- “Some of these nurses are so unprofessional, I’m disgusted,” one Twitter user responded, while several medics published videos challenging their colleagues. “Some health professionals and medical trainees have demonstrated activity and/or behaviour on social media that may adversely4 affect public health and public opinion of the medical profession,” the Association for Healthcare Social Media published in a statement on Thursday.
- But TikTok videos can be a “great” way of providing health advice and medical information to teens and young adults, says Dr Rose Marie Leslie, a 29-year-old doctor in Minneapolis, Minnesota, who has a background in health education.
- She says the vast majority of TikTok videos made by doctors are accurate and professional, and that the viral videos this week do not represent the norm. Her videos are inspired by her shifts at the hospital or give general advice on health trends she sees at work, like a spike5 in flu cases.
- Another doctor, who calls herself “Mama Doctor Jones” with nearly 160,000 followers, posts about topics like how to choose a contraceptive to prevent women from being pregnant, staying healthy during menstrual period, and exercise during pregnancy.
- Judging by the millions of views of doctors and nurses’ videos, health is a popular topic on TikTok.
- “I get hundreds of messages from teenagers asking for videos on specific topics, or with questions they are too worried to ask their doctor,” Dr Leslie explained. After posting about studies linking teen vaping6 to serious lung problems in the US, people messaged her to say the video inspired them to give up.
- Medical misinformation is a problem on all social media, she says, and unprofessional videos like those that spread this week “need to be responded to”.
- Her videos use evidence-based information and she includes links so viewers can check the source of the information. One of her recent posts debunked7 the belief that eating cheese and 8 yogurt causes acne, citing data from the American Academy of Dermatology .
- Some comments have criticised medics who adopt the TikTok style of dancing to music in their videos while delivering a serious message about health. “The TikTok spirit is fun – coming up with silly, funny dance videos. So I think physicians doing this are trying to keep that while also providing health information,” Dr Leslie argues.
- Responding to the criticism of medics this week, Dr Leslie posted a video asking her followers whether they believe doctors should be active on social media. “The comments have been positive, with people telling me it’s an easy way for them to learn something new and useful,” she explained.