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Canadian Medicine: Anonymous blogging: Don’t do it
Category: Technology     Tags: medicine  blogging  
To explain the danger of doctors writing anonymously online, I want to present the case of one of medical blogging’s first casualties, a pediatrician named Robert Lindeman (left).

Dr Lindeman went to Yale and then did his MD and PhD at Columbia. He worked at the Children’s Hospital in B...
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written by hjaqu001 117 days ago Rating: 1 | Rate Comment: + -

Wow, this case is fascinating! I'd not heard of Dr Lindeman or Flea before, and this blog post outlines the issue really well. It seems the cardinal rule of blogging if you're a doctor is not to say anything you wouldn't essentially be happy saying to a patient.

I've noticed lots of articles about doctors blogging and was going to write a post myself, but Sam Solomon has done much better job than I could so I think I'll just link to his post instead!

written by PharmacistMike 116 days ago Rating: 1 | Rate Comment: + -

It doesn't seem really smart to blog about an open case no matter what alias you use.


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