Empowering the physician-patient relationship: The role of the librarian

Empowering the physician-patient relationship: The role of the librarian: "While searching the Internet is often personally empowering for patients, this sense of empowerment does not necessarily translate into self-efficacy in interactions with health care providers. Whether health information found on the Internet is empowering for patients in clinical consultations appears to depend on the power relations between patients and practitioners, how patients use the information they retrieve, as well as on physicians’ affective responses to these patients. Librarians have a role to play in educating health care consumers and mediating the exchange of information between practitioner and patient."

The librarian can play an important role as an infomediary in dispensing information therapy prescribed by the doctor !