Last week I evaluated a child whose mother had found me through this Google mug post. The funny thing is that my site offered no information about her child’s perplexing celiac serology. While I didn't deliver what was searched, she found what she needed. When I began publishing ideas about technology and health there was no intent to attract patients. But ... Continue Reading about What Patients are Searching For
Twitter and the Dean of Harvard Medical School
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
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
Dozing Doctors and Digitally Mediated Whining
Buzzfeed has profiled a group of medical residents who have published pictures of themselves asleep. It’s fascinating, really. More of a phenomenon than a movement. There appears to be no unifying message, organization, or call to action. Rather a soft, civilly disobedient show-of-force fueled by social contagion and the need to be heard. A pig-pile of digitally ... Continue Reading about Dozing Doctors and Digitally Mediated Whining
Why Your Twitter Disclaimer Doesn’t Make Sense
It seems that I’m the only individual in the free world without a Twitter disclaimer that ‘my tweets are my own.’ You’ve seen them, I’m sure. Vague disclaimers invariably copied from someone else intended to create a fuzzy feeling of security. Here’s why I believe token disclaimers don’t make sense: You represent your organization. While you may not deliver ... Continue Reading about Why Your Twitter Disclaimer Doesn’t Make Sense
6 Digital Health Power Curators
Increasingly, my life is about finding signal. Noise grows by the day. So who I listen to has become important. Tuning for value has become a new preoccupation. So I thought I'd share a few of the people who do a brilliant job creating a clean, valuable signal for me. This is not a 'best of' list, but rather a sampling of individuals who do a great job of ... Continue Reading about 6 Digital Health Power Curators