As doctors and health professionals take to public spaces like Twitter and Facebook to curate and create we face new challenges. One of the challenges is how to disclose our relationship to the organizations and products. How do we disclose conflict of interest in so many different kinds of venues? This is an issue for doctors who have growing platforms that ... Continue Reading about Disclosure, Doctors and Social Media
Conflict of Interest and Medical Microcelebrities
Should individuals with access to health consumers be obligated to disclose conflict of interest? Yes. But it’s far from the standard of care. It used to be that the only people with influence were doctors. As a consequence, doctors are held to a high standard. Now if I eat a Pfizer-sponsored doughnut at grand rounds it's becomes part of the public record. Which ... Continue Reading about Conflict of Interest and Medical Microcelebrities
Physician Thought Leaders in the Digital Age
I was on a panel recently where it was asked, 'What will become of the physician thought leader in the digital age.' It's an interesting question because it draws on what constitutes influence in the modern medical world. How do we determine who we listen to and how will digital communication change that? It used to be that influence in medicine was determined by ... Continue Reading about Physician Thought Leaders in the Digital Age
Physicians, Risk and Opportunity in the Digital Age
This is a general narrative of Pediatric Grand Rounds on risk and opportunity delivered at Texas Children’s Hospital on December 2nd, 2011. I have included select graphics that were used during the presentation. I want to thank Dr. Mark Ward for inviting me to speak here at Pediatric Grand Rounds. The dilemmas and concerns surrounding physicians and social media ... Continue Reading about Physicians, Risk and Opportunity in the Digital Age