{"id":128067,"date":"2025-09-02T20:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/128067\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T20:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:44:11","slug":"how-can-physicians-counter-misleading-claims-about-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/128067\/","title":{"rendered":"How can physicians counter misleading claims about health care?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pb-2\">Medical misinformation and disinformation is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medicaleconomics.com\/view\/u-s-health-care-patients-have-a-big-problem-with-medical-misinformation-and-disinformation-physicians-foundation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a bad problem<\/a> that\u2019s getting worse for patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\">The Physicians Foundation published <a rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/physiciansfoundation.org\/research\/the-effect-of-misinformation-and-disinformation-on-physicians-ability-to-provide-quality-care\/\">\u201cThe Effect of Misinformation and Disinformation on Physicians\u2019 Ability to Provide Quality Care,\u201d<\/a> its survey of doctors to research how they feel about the inaccuracies pervasive across social media and national discourse about medicine and health care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\">Misinformation, which is false or inaccurate, and disinformation, false or inaccurate information presented to mislead someone deliberately, threaten patient safety by hurting the decision-making process and undermining the physician-patient relationship, according to The Physicians Foundation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\">A full 86% of physicians feel the incidence of medical misinformation and disinformation has increased compared with five years ago, and half of doctor respondents said it was a \u201csignificant increase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\">The results included a surprising finding. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medicaleconomics.com\/topics\/physician-advocacy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Physicians<\/a> consider themselves well-equipped to correct patients\u2019 wrong beliefs, but they have less confidence in patients\u2019 abilities to find accurate medical information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\">In this video series, Physicians Foundation President Gary Price, MD, MBA, discusses the results of the study and how doctors can reclaim credibility over false messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Medical misinformation and disinformation is a bad problem that\u2019s getting worse for patients. The Physicians Foundation published \u201cThe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253,66054,66053,66056,66055],"class_list":["post-128067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-impact-of-disinformation-on-patient-care","tag-medical-misinformation-in-rural-health-care","tag-patient-trust-and-evidence-based-medicine","tag-physicians-combating-health-misinformation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}