Editorial

Informed Society—Fact or Fiction? The Jelly Case

Authors: Uwe Wollina, MD

Abstract

Often, the 21st century is described as the age of information. It is a common misconception that the availability of information will create informed people. There is no such easy one-way development. In the medical field, the informed patient is an ideal that does not reflect reality. In everyday life, physicians are often confronted not only with patients' lack of knowledge (a problem that is understandable and changeable), but also with inaccurate knowledge those patients follow trying to improve their health (sometimes with the opposite results). With these false views, self-treatment can create harm.

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