Today the Wall Street Journal profiled Harvard Medical School’s Jeffrey Flier and his views on Twitter. It’s worth a read and it's brief. Most importantly, it can and should be shared with medical educators as an emerging standard. If you can overlook a degree of naiveté (you have no control over who your followers will be), the piece reflects the basic value ... Continue Reading about Twitter and the Dean of Harvard Medical School
Medicine X – How Education Begins to Change
Medicine is changing fast. Yet, the way we train doctors is not changing nearly as fast. It’s reflected in an education system built for 20th century. Over the past couple of days people began talking about it at a meeting called Medicine X | Ed. This is the first meeting to tackle the thorniest issues facing our next generation of doctors. The meeting brought ... Continue Reading about Medicine X – How Education Begins to Change
Stay Tuned for Number Two
I’m thrilled to announce my latest project, Looking Out for Number Two. As you might imagine, it’s a book about poo. Specifically, baby poo. Imagine Number Two as a slightly irreverent guide to digestive health during the first year of life. From the curiosities of stool color and burp science to grunting baby syndrome and the power of the microbiome, Number Two will ... Continue Reading about Stay Tuned for Number Two
What Does a Surgeon Look Like? – A Defining Hashtag
If you want to see how public media has changed the way doctors are portrayed, look no further than #ilooklikeasurgeon. This hashtag meme shows how surgeons have defied a stereotype. Female surgeons have taken to the social airwaves with candid displays of who they are. They are redefining the answer to the question: What does a surgeon look like? Physicians were ... Continue Reading about What Does a Surgeon Look Like? – A Defining Hashtag
Fitbit as the Wang Laboratories of Digital Health
Technology’s history has a way of repeating itself. Consider Wang Laboratories. A 3 billion dollar a year operation in the 1980's, Wang built its empire on the idea that every office in the world would ultimately use a word processor - a freestanding word processor. Wang was right on the first count and wrong on the second. Ahead of its time in reference to ... Continue Reading about Fitbit as the Wang Laboratories of Digital Health
Why You Should Attend Stanford Medicine X | Ed
Health care is changing fast. Everything we understand about what it is to be a physician is changing. Yet we continue to train doctors for 20th century care. So the minds at Stanford's Medicine X thought the subject could use a little discussion. They're moving the chains with a transformative new meeting about medical education, Medicine X | ed. This fall on the ... Continue Reading about Why You Should Attend Stanford Medicine X | Ed