Emergency Medicine News, a free magazine for ER docs, had a good article on medibloggers – particularly ER blogs. Check it out here. Good read. And for the record, I omit and change details on every case so you HIPPA police out there, chill out!
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The research mentioned in the article is poorly done and draws conclusions that are unwarranted. These conclusions only seem to serve the biases of the researchers. We need to demand that researchers demonstrate their conclusions clearly and objectively. The research, at the center of this article, does not do that.
I wrote about some of their errors in Blogging and Privacy and Competition for Dr. Deborah Peel.
I think this article has been written one million times already, complete with GruntDoc quotes and everything. It’s like no one can say anything more about blogs other than “people write them and OMG HIPAA!”
Hi, we spend bajillions of dollars on health care in this country and people are too scared to even discuss how these policies and things affect “actual” patients. What’s better? Saying “there are a lot of people addicted to prescription painkillers now as a result of the over-prescription of narcotics” or blogs that describe an encounter with a “patient” with this problem down to the sweating, cussing, spitting, manipulation, and security escort out or a description of a doctor’s prescribing practices (eg. my Dr. Bloody Gloves) that fuel this problem?
Anonymous ER blogs are where it’s at! The ER is not Pollyanna Perfect all day and night, and, if you’re going to portray life in the ER, it’s frankly dishonest to leave this stuff out IMHO.