Health check: Dr Phil Kieran and other medics on role of social media in medicine

What role can doctors play in the social media age? Four GPs share their views with Ciara McDonnell.

LAST month, Dr Doireann O’Leary, a Cork-based GP with an Instagram following of over 26,000, took to her grid to chat about fertility. After being asked for the umpteenth time when she and husband — CUH specialist surgeon Stephen O’Leary — were planning to have children, Doireann decided to take a direct approach.