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With the insurgence of Medical Social Networking sites with a patient / doctor interactive communities, patients are now able to provide and share knowledge about diseases, treatments, and local doctors within their own communities. These sites are the heart of the Health 2.0 idea. Moving out of the depths of the waiting rooms and into the space of the World Wide Web, patients are discussing the most intimate of details surrounding their diagnoses, treatments, disease progression, remission or cure and overall patient care. Doctors are critiqued down to the most fine of details. Power. That is what the patients are taking back and sharing with fellow and prospective patients. This power, once only reserved for doctors in charge of a patient’s care, is being taken back by those who can benefit the most, the patients.
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