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)