September 13th, 2010 by Bryan Vartabedian, M.D. in Better Health Network, Medblogger Shout Outs, News, Opinion
Tags: Healthcare Blogging, Healthcare Social Media, Medblogging, Medical Blogging, Medicine and Social Media, Michael Arrington, Social Health Media, Social Health Memes, Social Health Psychomanipulation, Social Media Behavior, Techcrunch
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Last week Michael Arrington wrote an important piece in Techcrunch, “Blogging and Mass Psychomanipulation.” It details how as bloggers we play to our readers for positive regard. We give ‘em red meat.
I think there’s social health psychomanipulation. Many of us indulge the obvious social health memes. We universally bash pharma, blindly buoy the empowered, and champion just about anything at the intersection of digitally democracy and health care. Too many want to be accepted, retweeted, and linked by an evolving hierarchy of power brokers looking to advance one self-imposed new standard.
And every now and again I fall into the trap and offer bread and circus.
If you’re preoccupied with traffic metrics and the blind need to belong, go ahead and jump on the bandwagon. Push those big red “easy” buttons of social health. Contribute to the echo chamber. Then read Michael Arrington’s piece and look in the mirror. Who (or what) are you really trying to advance?
*This blog post was originally published at 33 Charts*
August 27th, 2010 by Berci in Better Health Network, Medblogger Shout Outs, News, Research
Tags: Definition of Health 2.0, Definition of Medicine 2.0, Lucien Engelen, Medblogger crowd, Medblogger Shout Out, Online Health Community, Online Survey, Social Health Media, Systematic Review
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My friend and fellow blogger Lucien Engelen asked the health community to help define what Health 2.0 exactly means through an online survey:
After our systematic review about the definition of Health 2.0, one of our next steps will be sorting out what “the crowd” thinks that has to be part of a definition of Health 2.0. For this purpose we’ve set up a little questionnaire that you could fill in below.
To make the crowd as big as possible, we have also made it available to put on your own blog or website. We would encourage you to do this and inspire others to do the same.
You may remember that Lucien and his collegues published a review about the definitions of Health 2.0 and Medicine 2.0 currently available.
*This blog post was originally published at ScienceRoll*
August 24th, 2010 by Emergiblog in Better Health Network, Humor, Medblogger Shout Outs, Opinion, True Stories
Tags: Best of Nursing, Change Of Shift, Clinical Nursing, Difficult Nursing Moments, Emergiblog, Kim McAllister, Nurses Who Blog, Nursing Blogs, Nursing Care, Nursing Profession, Stories of Nursing Success
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Welcome to Change of Shift!
We have some old friends and some new additions. Our submissions cover the best of nursing and the most difficult moments. Some share successes, others could use some collegial support.
So grab a latte, put your feet up, and enjoy…
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Change of Shift: Volume 5, Number 4
I love adding nursing blogs to my blogroll! This week, thanks to his CoS submission, I’ve found Stephen at A Nurse Practitioner’s View, where he presents Team Work. When it comes to patient care, check our egos at the door.
Some teams we chose and some we’re born into, as noted in this heart-warming story from Keith at Digital Doorway, We’re All in This Together.
Nurses are expected to be super-humanly objective and non-judgmental. As this honest post from Nurse Me shows, there are limits, and don’t forget to Always Look Behind the Curtain First. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Emergiblog*
August 8th, 2010 by GarySchwitzer in Better Health Network, Medblogger Shout Outs, News, Opinion, Research
Tags: Adam Marcus, Dr. Ivan Oransky, Embargo Watch, Gary Schwitzer, Health News Blogs, Health News Coverage, HealthNewsReview.org, Medblogs, Niche Blog, Retraction Watch, Reuters Health, Science Journalists, Science Reporting, Scientific Information Embargoes, Scientific Information Retractions
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Ivan Oransky, M.D., executive editor of Reuters Health, somehow found time a few months ago to launch his first blog, Embargo Watch — with the tagline: “Keeping an eye on how scientific information embargoes affect news coverage.”
Now, as evidence he either doesn’t sleep or has roots in Transylvania, Oransky the Impaler launches a new blog, Retraction Watch along with partner Adam Marcus. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog*
August 3rd, 2010 by Maria Gifford in Announcements, Better Health Network, Humor, Medblogger Shout Outs, Opinion
Tags: Australian Physicians, Best Of The Medical Blogosphere, Better Health, Deadly Aussie Animal, Down Under, General Medicine, Grand Rounds, Heard Around The MedBlogosphere, Killer Posts, Life in the Fast Lane, Medbloggers, Medblogging, Medical Blogging, Medical Humor, Utopian College of Emergency for Medicine
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Better Health’s Grand Rounds this week is hosted by the ever-so-crafty Life in the Fast Lane team of Australian physicians at the Utopian College of Emergency for Medicine.
These docs “take great pleasure in sharing their medical experiences, clinical knowledge and insights into waiting-room medicine with health-conscious technophiles to facilitate the learning process by providing diverse and hopefully entertaining reading material.” It’s always worth a read (and a chuckle), no doubt.
With the theme of “Killer Posts” (just a hint — hate to blow the surprise), this edition of Grand Rounds is sure to educate in more ways than one! Experience it HERE.
