Doctors don’t know what to do about wellness influencers but we dismiss them at our peril | Ranjana Srivastavatranslating…

To be a cancer specialist is to see the worst of harm caused by social media. Yet I have never changed a patient’s mind with outrage“And so, of course, I have completely stopped eating red meat.”The “of course” is galling, especially since we have been using precious bags of blood to top up my patient’s haemoglobin.Ranjana Srivastava is an Australian oncologist, award-winning author and Fulbright scholar. Her latest book is Every Word Matters: Writing to Engage the Public Continue reading...