Nurses and doctors are flocking to TikTok to crack jokes and lip sync. But are they eroding patients' trust?

After a few videos went viral for the wrong reasons, should doctors and nurses keep trying to get their messages across?

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Scroll past the teens who film themselves flossing and the young activists satirizing the issues of the day, and you might find a board-certified physician thrusting furiously to a Ciara song, extolling the virtues of complex carbohydrates. That may sound like a sentence straight out of Mad Libs. It's not.Medical professionals are navigating the testy waters of TikTok, one of the most popular social media platforms in the world, en masse.The hope is, if TikTok's primarily teen demographic doesn't get adequate health education in school, maybe they can pick up a tip or two in between all the lip syncing. Just make it funny, self-aware enough and, if possible, frame it like a meme. They don't always get it right.

— D Rose November 19, 2019 The backlash followed swiftly and furiously, spurring the hashtag #PatientsAreNotFaking. Thousands of users shared stories of loved ones who weren't believed by their doctors or nurses. In many cases, users said their diagnoses followed only after they were initially turned away.

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