33charts - 33charts.com - 33 Charts
General Information:
Latest News:
The Branded Doctor 27 Aug 2013 | 04:55 pm
Every doctor has a brand. But when I mention this, people throw things at me. Because everybody knows a brand is for potato chips and toilet paper. This has nothing do with promotion or commercials...
Human Bandwidth Will Never Scale to Match Clinical Supply 26 Aug 2013 | 05:39 pm
In his book, Too Big to Know, David Weinberger suggests that information is becoming the problem rather than the solution. There used to be a nurse practitioner in another specialty in my hospital wh...
Polishing Glass 24 Aug 2013 | 08:37 am
We’re all convinced that Google Glass will change medicine. But no one’s really sure how. The idea of a doctor talking to her glasses just seems inevitable. This closing paragraph from a FastCo.Exi...
Why LinkedIn Might Be Good For Teens 22 Aug 2013 | 08:07 am
LinkedIn dropped its minimum age for enrollment to 14 in the US. This change comes with their launch of their University pages, a new LinkedIn environment for higher education. While I initially sa...
Translating Social Concepts for the Academic Consumer 19 Aug 2013 | 07:22 pm
JAMA last week published a nice viewpoint piece, Social Media and Physicians’ Identity Crisis, written by Margaret Chisolm and her peers at Johns Hopkins. The piece challenges the dated concept of mu...
One Physician and His Paid Twitter Promotion 18 Aug 2013 | 10:22 pm
Physician executive and coach Richard Winters recently paid to promote his work on Twitter. It created a small kerfuffle. Not surprising, really. We get wiggy when doctors do something different. ...
Follow Me to Wing of Zock 17 Aug 2013 | 08:10 pm
If you’re interested in some of my thinking in the realm of medical education, follow me to Wing of Zock, a site concerned with edgy meded thinking. Recently I’ve been thinking about education and wh...
Social Media Education Should be Tailored to the User 15 Aug 2013 | 02:13 am
When we think about the boundaries of communication technology and social media, we tend to put students, residents, and faculty into the same bucket. Policies for one are the policies for the others...
Medical Foo 13 Aug 2013 | 08:34 pm
Last year I was fortunate enough to be at Health Foo, an intimate powwow of some amazing folks (Foo stands for friends of O’Reilly). Structured as an unconference on the campus of the Microsoft Resea...
Passion: What Hospital Blogs Should Seek 12 Aug 2013 | 04:01 pm
At a meeting recently a communication professional asked what skill she should look for when recruiting doctors to write for her hospital’s blog. I didn’t hesitate. ‘Passion,’ I responded. Blogging...
