Your Doctor Is Instagram Famous. Do Likes Matter in the Exam Room?

How social media is changing relationships with health care providers

Allie Volpe
Elemental
Published in
5 min readJul 31, 2019

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WWhen Pamela Ramom awoke from eye surgery in April, she exclaimed, “Oh my god, I’m going to cry.” Ramom had undergone LASIK and was overcome with the result. “I can see everything,” the 24-year-old remembered saying to no one in…

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Allie Volpe
Elemental

Writes about lifestyle, trends, and pop psychology for The Atlantic, New York Times, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Washington Post, and more.