A series of articles discussing the issues of patient privacy and medical blogging.
Is Dr. Blogger telling too much?
“Hundreds of doctors across the country are writing Internet diaries that sometimes include harsh judgments of patients, coarse observations and distinct details of some cases.
Critics say the blogs cross into an ethical gray area and threaten patient privacy while posing liability risks for health workers and their employers.”
Doc: Blog a healthy debate
“He has kept his blog secret from his employer, and he said he tries to blur details that could reveal where he works or whom he has treated.
That’s what allows him to write about controversial subjects, he said. For example, in a recent blog, neonataldoc debated whether what he called ‘retarded’ children should be allowed to keep their sex organs.”
Surveying bloggers
An article about the recent survey of the healthcare blogosphere.
(via Fard)
Related posts:
- The Detroit Free Press again on medical blogs
- LA Times on medical blogs
- NPR on doctor blogs
- A medblogger tones down
- Medical blogs in the USA Today
- Should physician blogs be held to a higher standard?
- Some continue to think that health care is "free"
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While I think that having a blog humanizes a physician who may otherwise be unapproachable, it does feel like inappropriate discussion of patients’ looks, behavior, or lifestyle might result in a stifling of information being passed from the patient to the doctor.
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