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More goodness from the MDigitalLife study courtesy of Greg Matthews (@chimoose). I asked him (very nicely) if he would take a look at the database he’s got of 3,200 verified physicians’ 2.1 million tweets for frequencies of environmental / sustainability topics, and here’s what he found. Green docs – Analysis from MDigitalLife Data from Ted [...]
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35% of Americans ask Dr. Google for medical diagnoses – As reported in today’s USAToday, as published in Health Online 2013 | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project released today. Another fine piece of internet geology by community colleague Susannah Fox (@susannahfox). Primary source for health information: not much change since 2002 I went [...]
2commentsThis is part 3 of 3 of “I am a Family Physician”. Click here to access parts 1 and 2. What it feels like to be one (a family doctor) The first secretary of the American Academy of Family Physicians said his contribution was to: give prestige and dignity to the general practitioners. They had been discriminated [...]
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McWhinney IR. Family Medicine in Perspective. New England Journal of Medicine. 1975;293(4):176–181.
This is part 2 of a 3 part series. Click here to access all the parts. In part 1 I talked about what I am. Here’s what I found out about where I came from,. Conceived in the 20th Century as a new specialist, with a different view of “knowledge” The problem of the primary [...]
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Note: This is the first of three parts. Click here to access them all. I am happy I get to write this blog post. It falls on the occasion of my recertification as a diplomate of the American Board of Family Medicine. Before, during, and on completion of this milestone, I received many, many, questions like [...]
0commentsI found this KhanAcademy video linked from the (excellent) Thedacare Center for Healthcare Value blog. Unfortunately, I don’t think this video is that excellent. Partially because of the format, partially because Salman Khan seems a bit impatient in the narrative to draw conclusions. The narrative is given by Laurence Baker from Stanford who does a credible [...]
2commentsFacebook friends with your doctor: good medicine or ethically 'icky'? | Local News | The Seattle Times. This is an article where friends (and people I admire), Wendy Sue Swanson, MD ( @seattlemamadoc) , Jen Dyer, MD (@endogoddess), and Matt Handley, MD (@matthandley), discuss the use of social media by physicians. I am also quoted, [...]