The number of patients using social media and the number of applications and solutions used by
medical professionals online have been sky-rocketing in the past few years therefore the
rational behind creating a well-designed clear and tight handbook of practical examples and
case studies with simple pieces of suggestions about different social media platforms is
evident. While the number of e-patients is rising the number of web-savvy doctors who can meet
the expectations of these new generations of patients is not this huge gap can only be closed
by providing medical professionals with easily implementable useful and primarily practical
pieces of advice and suggestions about how they should use these tools or at least what they
should know about these so then when an e-patient has an internet-related question they will
know how to respond properly. As all medical professionals regardless of their medical
specialties will meet e-patients this issue with growing importance will affect every medical
professionals which means there is a huge need for such a easily understandable handbook.?
