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
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
What Patients are Searching For
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
EPIC and Analog: A Tale of Two Offices
There are two doctors I work with: those using EPIC in my hospital network and those outside of EPIC. Increasingly, the experience with the two providers is very different. EPIC practice. I have full access to everything that’s ever been done to a child. After I see a patient my findings and impression are immediately available to the referring doctor. As labs ... Continue Reading about EPIC and Analog: A Tale of Two Offices
Doctors and the Google Threat
You may have seen this image floating around. The funny thing is that this is something I would have expected in 1997. At the the time we were adjusting to the idea of information as the 3rd party in the exam room. Patients had a heady sense of power; doctors had to adjust to a shifting relationship. Patients now seem to have a more mature relationship with ... Continue Reading about Doctors and the Google Threat
Curators and Dumpers: Twitter’s Two Citizens
In the information age we’re increasingly defined by who we listen to. After 7 years I’ve found that there are two types of social citizens on Twitter: Curators and dumpers. Curators are careful and intentional with what they share. Dumpers create movement, visibility and noise. Like a type of digital brownian movement, the dumper is constantly running and ... Continue Reading about Curators and Dumpers: Twitter’s Two Citizens