October 7th, 2010 by Maria Gifford in Announcements, Better Health Network, Medblogger Shout Outs, News
Tags: Best Doctor's Blogs, Best Of The Medical Blogosphere, Better Health Bloggers, Clinical Medicine Blogs, Doctors and Social Media, Doctors on the Internet, Doctors Online, Doctors Who Blog, Dr. Lucy Hornstein, Dr. Wes Fisher, Healthcare Blogs, Healthcare Social Media, Humanistic Side of Medicine, Humanizing Medicine, Medblogs, Medical Bloggers, Medical Blogs, Medical Scribes, Medicine and Humanism, Musings of a Dinosaur, O Magazine, Oprah, Physician Bloggers, Social Media In Medicine
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Check out this preview article (dated October 20, 2010) by Madonna Behen on Oprah’s “O” Magazine website entitled “4 Doctor’s Blogs to Read Now,” where two of the four doctors’ blogs listed are regular Better Health content contributors. They are family physician Lucy Hornstein, M.D., author of “Musings of a Dinosaur,” and internist, cardiologist, and cardiac electrophysiologist Wesby Fisher, M.D., author of “Dr. Wes.”
An excerpt:
You thought physicians were robotic and cold? A new epidemic of personal blogs written by docs might change your mind. These medical scribes are boldly posting their real feelings (and worst fears) on the web, for all the world to see. Their journals provide us patients with an informative and humanizing look behind the professional mask.
Congratulations to these great physician bloggers of ours for making up half of the list!
September 30th, 2010 by Happy Hospitalist in Better Health Network, Medblogger Shout Outs, Opinion, True Stories
Tags: Doctor Shortage, General Medicine, Happy Hospitalist, Hospital Medicine Lead Doctor, Recruiting Doctors, Society of Hospital Medicine, Trying To Hire A Hospital Medicine Physician Leader
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How can you find a hospitalist director with enough experience to lead a team of hospitalists? Recruitment can be tough. A reader recently asked for my opinion:
I am searching for a Hospitalist to lead a department in the state of XXX and I’m not finding any leads. On a good day, I can find a new graduate interested in moving to XXX, but I have not been able to find an experienced Hospitalist who has the supervisory experience to lead a department. …and this is an opportunity (full time & permanent) for good pay with an excellent work/life balance. Where would you suggest I look for my Lead Hospitalist?
My first thought is for you to purchase a booth at the Society of Hospital Medicine’s yearly conference and then bombard all the hospitalists with pens and squeezy balls while trying to pocket an email and home address or two. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at The Happy Hospitalist*
September 23rd, 2010 by Bryan Vartabedian, M.D. in Better Health Network, Health Policy, Medblogger Shout Outs, Opinion, Quackery Exposed, True Stories
Tags: 33 Charts, Doctors and Social Media, Doctors and Social Media Anonymity, Doctors Who Blog, Doctors' Credibility, Dr. Bryan Vartabedian, Healthcare Blogs, Healthcare Social Media Camp, Medbloggers, Medical Blogging, Medical Blogosphere, Medical Blogs, Physician Bloggers, Social Media Behavior, Social Media in Healthcare, Social Media In Medicine, Socially Anonymous Doctors, Unease About Social Media
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I don’t think doctors should be socially anonymous. We need to be seen. Here’s why going underground isn’t good policy for physicians:
Anonymity makes you say stupid things. When you’re shouting from the crowd it’s easy to talk smack. Come up to the podium, clear your throat, and say something intelligent. You’re a physician, not a hooligan.
It’s 2010: Anonymity died a long time ago. You think anonymity offers shelter? You’re funny, you are. Anonymity is a myth. You can create a cockamamie pseudonym, but you can’t hide. And if I don’t find you, the plaintiff attorneys will. They found Flea.
Being a weanie is no excuse. Just as you’re unlikely to consult a lawyer before speaking at a cocktail party, commenting as Dr. You is unlikely to kill you or land you in court. Just a few pointers: Don’t talk about patients, help people out, and be nice. Trust me, I’m a doctor. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at 33 Charts*
September 19th, 2010 by KevinMD in Announcements, Better Health Network, Health Policy, Medblogger Shout Outs, News, Opinion
Tags: Doctors and Social Media, Mayo Clinic Center for Health Care Social Media, Social Media In Medicine
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The Mayo Clinic has always been at the forefront of the social media and health care intersection, and is the first institution to have an official Center for Social Media.
When they recently announced the invited first 13 members of their Advisory Board for the Mayo Clinic Center for Health Care Social Media, the first thing I noticed that there were zero physicians, and few with clinical experience. What a slap in the face.
There’s little question that the qualifications of the selected members are beyond reproach, and all are respected luminaries in the health care social media field. But this is the Mayo Clinic, one of the leading health care institutions in the country, so it’s odd that clinician-bloggers were blatantly ignored. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at KevinMD.com*
September 15th, 2010 by Dr. Val Jones in Announcements, Better Health Network, Celebrity Interviews, Expert Interviews, Medblogger Shout Outs
Tags: ADD, ADHD, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Capitol Hill, Dr. Kevin Pho, Dr. Rob Lamberts, Dr. Val Jones, EIC, Psychiatry, Psychology, Shire, UStream
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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is probably overdiagnosed by physicians. In the lay public, the term is often used jokingly to describe the common feeling of distraction we experience in a world filled with interruptions. With a constant stream of text messages, Facebook updates, TV commercials, and fast-paced Twittering, there’s little wonder that we all feel frazzled at times.
But the occasional experience of jangled nerves is not a proper basis for a diagnosis of ADHD. Unfortunately, there has been great confusion between the actual disorder, and its misuse as a label for simply feeling distracted.
So to help set the record straight and to tease out fact from fiction, I’ll be attending a forum on Capitol Hill with my co-bloggers Dr. Kevin Pho and Dr. Rob Lamberts.
If you’re in the DC area, please come and join us in person. If you’d like to view some of the event via the Internet, we’ll be conducting live interviews with the speakers on Ustream. You can join the conversation by asking your questions in real time in the chat room starting at 2:00PM (EST) on Thursday, September 16, 2010. Please save the Ustream link to join the conversation: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/fact-or-fiction-adhd-in-america. Read more »
