A study in JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery this month reports that 64% of plastic surgeons describe having used online videos to learn new procedures. What's remarkable isn’t the 64%, but the fact that the study drew so much attention. Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised. The Internet, after all, is typically seen as a sewer of misinformation. Good medical information ... Continue Reading about When Surgeons Learn from YouTube
How Cook Medical Makes Twitter Human
One of the challenges organizations face on Twitter is presenting themselves in a space built for individual human exchange. Tools like Twitter are built for connection. If you want to see how one large brand handles their Twitter presence, look at Cook Medical. They deliver the most elegant solution to personal social presentation that I've seen from a large ... Continue Reading about How Cook Medical Makes Twitter Human
When Data Meets Doctors
This week while serving on the GI consult service at Texas Children's Hospital I was asked to evaluate a child in the Pediatric Heart Failure ICU. When I walked into the patient's room, I found this: A massive wall-mounted touch screen at the foot of the bed with all of the patient's critical data beautifully displayed. As the cardiac intensivists round, all of the ... Continue Reading about When Data Meets Doctors
The Medical Media Continuum | Where to put ideas
One of the biggest challenges I face today is where to put things. Not my stethoscope or reflex hammer, but more important things. Like ideas and media. It’s a new problem. Until recently doctors had no place to put ideas. Sounds odd. But think about it ... We could share ideas in the surgical lounge with our peers. We could share it in the auditorium of the local ... Continue Reading about The Medical Media Continuum | Where to put ideas
Impact Pediatric Health: A Game Changer for Kids
As someone who cares for chronically ill children and watches technology, I’m thrilled to be participating in and advising Impact Pediatric Health at SXSW this March. Check it out. Supported by some of the top-ranked children’s hospitals in the United States (my own Texas Children’s Hospital as a core catalyst of IPH), this one-of-a kind competition is a chance for ... Continue Reading about Impact Pediatric Health: A Game Changer for Kids
7 Reasons Every Doctor Should Write
Once restricted to peer-review journals as their sole means of sharing ideas, every doctor on the planet is a now a potential publisher. Here's why doctors should embrace the democratization of media: 1. It's how you understand you. Writing will make you a better communicator. Writing forces you to shape what you think. Until you shape your logic and launch it, it's ... Continue Reading about 7 Reasons Every Doctor Should Write