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Social networking for patients
New York Times, October 29, 2008
Patient social networks have become a new niche. Since health is often sensitive and private—and not something people want to discuss on general social media sites with all of their friends and colleagues—the ill often seek social networks that can connect them to someone else who can relate.
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