‘One of the biggest problems confronting medicine today’: University in US offers class on misinformation

Serritella leads a Zoom class for medical students and health care professionals aimed at teaching them how to fight misinformation in medicine at the Biological Sciences Learning Center. — Chicago Tribune/TNS

Patients have long been told to turn to their doctors for accurate, trusted health information.

But in recent years, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic, doctors’ voices have sometimes been drowned out by social media users who blast misinformation across the globe, leading patients to make questionable, and sometimes dangerous, choices about their health.