Should you blog about patients?

Surely this fits in with the problem of new things seeming more different than they are.

If blogging about patients in any way is unacceptable, then writing journal articles is likewise unacceptable, writing medical texts with clinical vignettes is unacceptable. I don’t think there is a tradition of getting patients’ permission to write about them – there is for photographs, but not the clinical information.

I do think you should take measures to not identify specific persons, and one has to be cautious about distorted, emotionally-charged, and potentially libelous or slanderous comments.