International Journal of Health Services
   Publisher:   Baywood Publishing Company
   Issue:   Volume 35, Number 3 / 2005
   Pages:   603 - 605
   URL:   Linking Options

HOW CAN WE IMPROVE MEDICAL REPORTING? LET ME COUNT THE WAYS

Andre Picard (Health reporter for Globe and Mail...)

Abstract:

Gary Schwitzer, former medical correspondent at CNN and now a professor of
journalism, listed "10 troublesome trends in TV health news," making the
important point that most people today get their health information from
the media, and from TV in particular. In this article, the author presents
Schwitzer's list and expands it with 10 more troublesome trends. Good
health reporting should provide a straightforward, balanced, comprehensible
summary of health issues that provides context to information-hungry
consumers; it should rarely be sensational, but always skeptical. And there
should be a lot more of it.

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