As if the firestorm over blogging about patients isn’t hot enough, here are a couple of takes talking about those who Twitter about patients at work.
Although blogs and tweets about patients are often the most interesting, the privacy issues are the ones major media will focus on, and often stir up the most controversy. Don’t assume that there is any anonymity on the web.
The surest way to stay out of trouble is to write as if your boss is reading your posts.
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This is more lawyer intimidation of the doctor. The doctor cannot even say a word without getting threatened. The scapegoating patient feels totally free to unfairly bash the doctor. The lawyer has given it total immunity, to make false allegations, spew hatred, and file weak claims.
It should become the an accepted doctrine that the defendant will always attack the oppressive government thug lawyer personally. Always demand total e-discovery of the enemies of clinical care, including the plaintiff, the plaintiff lawyer, and the vile, biased judge enabling their plunder. Always sue the licensing board, always countersue the CMS thugs, always sue the plaintiff. Always file ethics charges against the plaintiff lawyer enemy for every utterance that potentially violates a rule. Do so one at a time, once a month, so that the lawyer spends the rest of its life under investigation. No enemy of clinical care should spend a day without uncertainty. To deter.
How awful would it be if Twitter affected your licensure. All that hard work ruined by a Tweet.
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