ABC's Johnson Shares Perspectives On Medicine

National Youth Leadership Forum
Thursday, 27 July 2000

BOSTON – Dr. Tim Johnson, medical editor for ABC News today welcomed more than 350 high school students attending the National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine (NYLF/MED) to Boston to discuss the sometimes-tenuous relationship between the media and medicine.

Dr. Johnson noted, "Over the past 20 years, the media has had a tremendous impact on the health of the United States based on the information that they make available to the public." He also cautioned, "While meteorologists must be educated in meteorology, medical editors are not necessarily required to have any medical training. This may increase the chance of misinformation, so be sure to consider your source."

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