Medicine
Since I started this blog in July, I have chosen to restrict the posting of comments and responses to readers who were willing to identify themselves publicly. The rationale for this restriction was to protect the blog against spam message. However, as Common Sense Family Doctor's readership has slowly grown through the online grapevine and social networking sites such as Twitter, I have re-thought this strategy and have now decided, in the interest of making the blog more interactive and to foster more healthy (as opposed to unhealthy) debate, to allow anyone who reads to post responses, starting today. I still encourage you to identify yourself voluntarily, but if for some reason you don't want to, you won't have to. Please respect the usual conventions of online etiquette, e.g. do not use profanity of any kind, and take issue with ideas rather than the person advocating those ideas. We'll see how this goes - I'm hoping for the best.
Thanks,
Kenny Lin, MD
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Medicine
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Since I started this blog in July, I have chosen to restrict the posting of comments and responses to readers who were willing to identify themselves publicly. The rationale for this restriction was to protect the blog against spam message. However, as Common Sense Family Doctor's readership has slowly grown through the online grapevine and social networking sites such as Twitter, I have re-thought this strategy and have now decided, in the interest of making the blog more interactive and to foster more healthy (as opposed to unhealthy) debate, to allow anyone who reads to post responses, starting today. I still encourage you to identify yourself voluntarily, but if for some reason you don't want to, you won't have to. Please respect the usual conventions of online etiquette, e.g. do not use profanity of any kind, and take issue with ideas rather than the person advocating those ideas. We'll see how this goes - I'm hoping for the best.
Thanks,
Kenny Lin, MD
- Upcoming Seminar On Social Media In Family Medicine
For my clinician readers, I'd like to put a plug in for the upcoming annual Northeast meeting of the Family Medicine Education Consortium, taking place at the Coco Key Hotel and Water Resort in Danvers, MA from October 21-23. Please join me and family...
- Docs Behaving Badly In Social Media
A recent research letter in JAMA surveyed more than 300 high-profile (500 followers or more) physicians on Twitter and reported results of a "content analysis" of more than 5000 of their individual tweets. As one might expect, about half of the tweets...
- The Doctor Will "tweet" You Now
There’s a lot of evidence that to prevent many serious health conditions, including diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and stroke, making healthy lifestyle changes are just as good, if not better than, taking medications. Lifestyle changes may consist...
- From One Blog To Three
As Common Sense Family Doctor approaches its first anniversary, I am pleased to announce that I will soon be writing and moderating two new blogs that you are more than welcome to visit. Common Sense MD, hosted by the U.K.'s Family Health Guide, offers...
- Finding Good Primary Care: Beyond "best Doctors" Lists - Part 2 Of 2
Aware of the limited amount of reliable data about physicians online, many practices have decided to cut out the middleman and market their services to patients directly. Increasingly, practice websites contain more than basic information such as contact...