A Youtube Surgery: The Breakdown of How Surgeons Use the Internet for Their Patients- Special Post
Hi and welcome back! The last post was an interactive post, where readers could pick their top scientific discovery of the decade and, as promised, I would post up the list of them for all to see.
That's it for this article! What do you think? And until next time, stay tuned!
-TheBookishElephant
It's not much, but here it is!
The Top Scientific Discoveries of the Decade (By You All!):
1) The "First-Ever Picture of A Black Hole"-April 10, 2019; By Anonymous
2) "Higgs Boson Discovery/Learnings"- in 2012; By Anonymous
I'm sure there were many more throughout the decade- but these seemed to be the top two!
Anyway, today's post is a quick, yet important article on a debatable topic... I hope you enjoy it!
A Youtube Surgery: The Breakdown of How Surgeons Use the Internet for Their Patients
Scrolling through cat videos, songs, and just about any video imaginable sounds exactly how it should for a typical teenager on Youtube. The platform for sharing, creating, and doing small amounts of editing has opened a plethora of opportunities for just about anyone ready to share their ideas about the world. However, because of the ability to share any video possible, Youtube has become a problem for not only teenagers binging. Doctors and surgeons have been using Youtube as a learning platform for surgical processes, creating issues as to whether it’s a risk when it comes to the high calibers we expect for each and every visit.
Most non-experienced doctors in training tend to lean toward using Youtube. As students search answers for questions they have about concepts they study, these to-be doctors sometimes go to Youtube for help on handling tasks. According to CNBC’s writer Christina Farr, “Doctors are uploading these videos to market themselves or to help others in the field…” but there is no verification as to whether these videos are accurate. And though there are chances a surgery might fail, we’d like to lower the chances as much as possible. Using videos on Youtube, verified or not, is just not the same as asking a professional or taking guidance from a teacher/professor.
Issue 5 Volume 74 of the Journal of Surgical Education performed a study regarding how much quality content is actually among the thousands of videos published on Youtube about a common surgery process known as distal radius fracture immobilization. According to this journal study, there were over 68,000 videos on this topic. However, when it came to judging based on quality, the number of videos that met their criteria dropped dramatically. Only 16 of these videos were verified with the “okay” to use, some with still slight confusion. That’s a little more than 0.02% of videos published.
Yet, Youtube doesn’t rank videos based on accuracy. Since Youtube is a program to fit the searching demand of any topic, the ranking style won’t fit the needs of a surgeon looking to accurately perform a heart transplant. Youtube’s aim is to provide the watcher with what they want, in other words, most popular videos or videos with demanding content.
Millions of videos are posted on Youtube. Finding a video that’s legitimate, trustworthy, easy to follow, and by a health professional is quite hard. For surgeons who are looking for a good source on surgeries, heading to Youtube might not be the best option. We should stand up for our safety and start verification procedures for videos fast, before we’re left in the middle of a surgery to find our surgeons watching Youtube.
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-TheBookishElephant
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