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Doctors say they're dealing with significantly more patients who resist their advice because of misinformation they read online

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Doctors say they're dealing with significantly more patients who resist their advice because of misinformation they read online Business Insider via MSN Doctors have said they are struggling to get patients to adhere to some medical advice because they are convinced of misinformation they read online, The New York Times reported. "This is no longer just an anecdotal observation that some individual doctors have made," Daniel Allington, a senior lecturer at King's College London told the Times. "This is a statistically significant pattern that we can observe in a large survey." Allington is also a coauthor of a recent study that found people who got their news online were more likely to believe in conspiracy theories and not follow public health guidelines compared to those who got their news from radio or television. READ MORE

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