• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

33 Charts

  • About
    • What is 33 Charts?
    • Bryan Vartabedian MD
  • Blog
  • 33mail
  • Foci
    • Social/Public Media
    • Physicians
    • Patients
    • Hospitals
    • Information
    • Process/Flow
    • Technology
    • Digital culture
    • Future Medicine
  • The Public Physician
Physicians, Social/Public Media

Worms and The Huffington Post

March 28, 2014 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minutes

wormsThis Huffington Post on worms is interesting.  Even if you’re not into parasites, it’s worth thinking about.  Written by Baylor College of Medicine’s Peter Hotez, it showcases how physicians can and should translate what they know for general consumption.

As the founder of one of the country’s most prestigious schools of tropical medicine, Dr. Hotez is passionate about neglected tropical diseases. His post makes a clean, approachable case for thinking about worms.  You can see that there are a lot of reasons why this subject needs general attention.

This seems like something we all should be doing in our respective fields.

But many doctors can’t figure out why they would ever need to part of the public dialog.  Others who understand why can’t figure out how.  And there are those who know how but belly ache about their lack of time.  The reasons for remaining quietly sequestered within our academic departments and community clinics are too numerous to count.

Dr. Hotez stands as a brilliant example of a tireless content creator who sees public communication not only as a path to bigger things but as an obligation to those we serve.

Follow him, read him on PLOS, and study his stuff.  If not to understand  3rd world diseases, to understand how we should carry ourselves beyond the confines of our clinical silos.

Related Articles

  • Social Media Has Been Introduced to Physicians
  • Chinese Public Physicians Gone Wild
  • Health Message Design for Constrained Media

Related Articles

  • Social Media Has Been Introduced to Physicians
  • Chinese Public Physicians Gone Wild
  • Health Message Design for Constrained Media

Primary Sidebar

Bryan Vartabedian, MD

Bryan Vartabedian, MD
Bryan Vartabedian is the Chief Pediatrics Officer at Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin and one of health care’s influential
voices on technology & medicine.
Learn More

Popular Articles

  • The Fate of Fired Cleveland Clinic Resident Lara Kollab
  • Cures Act Final Rule – How It Will Change Medicine
  • 12 Things About Doximity You Probably Didn’t Know
  • Should Physicians Give Their Cell Phone Number to Patients?
  • Doximity Dialer Video – Telemedicine’s Latest Power Player

Sign up for 33mail newsletter

Featured Articles

100,000 Connected Lemmings

The Case for New Physician Literacies in the Digital Age

Doctors and the Endemic Culture of Permission

Context Collapse and the Public Physician

Will the Future Need Doctors?

  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter

Footer

What is 33 Charts?

With a mashup of curated and original content that crosses the spaces of digital health, media, communication, technology, patient experience, digital culture, and the humanities, 33 charts offers unique insight and analysis on the changing face of medicine.

Founded in 2009 as a center of community and thought leadership for the issues doctors face in a digital world, 33 charts was included in the National Library of Medicine permanent web archive in 2014.
Learn More

Foci

  • Digital culture
  • Digital Health
  • EHR/Health IT
  • Future Medicine
  • Hospitals
  • Information
  • Patients
  • Physicians
  • Process/Flow
  • Quality
  • Social/Public Media
  • Technology

Copyright © 2023 · 33 Charts · Privacy Policy