Comments on: Medical bloggers are held to a double standard http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/05/medical-bloggers-are-held-to-double.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:59:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Pt. hx NOT YOURS! http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/05/medical-bloggers-are-held-to-double.html/comment-page-1#comment-75289 Pt. hx NOT YOURS! Mon, 21 May 2007 13:38:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/05/medical-bloggers-are-held-to-a-double-standard.html#comment-75289 Dr. Wes tosses off the release as if it is meaningless. <br/><br/><br/>Bloggers, get releases, and publish what you will.<br/><br/>To compare a personal diary with a scholarly journal and insist the standards and purposes are very similar --- similar enough to make bloggers efforts to conceal the medical condition and treatment of an individual evidence of a double-standard --- strikes me as fatuous.<br/><br/>A blog is a personal journal, not a medical journal. If you want to argue they should be more similar, or are a valuable new contribution to the art of medicine...a wiki-journal of sorts, that is one thing. But it seems to me obtaining releases prior to publication of identifying patient information is not an unjust standard. Dr. Wes tosses off the release as if it is meaningless.

Bloggers, get releases, and publish what you will.

To compare a personal diary with a scholarly journal and insist the standards and purposes are very similar — similar enough to make bloggers efforts to conceal the medical condition and treatment of an individual evidence of a double-standard — strikes me as fatuous.

A blog is a personal journal, not a medical journal. If you want to argue they should be more similar, or are a valuable new contribution to the art of medicine…a wiki-journal of sorts, that is one thing. But it seems to me obtaining releases prior to publication of identifying patient information is not an unjust standard.

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