Los Angeles Times: Doctors talk shop on medical blogs
Posted by GruntDoc on 2nd August 2008
Yrs. Trly, KevinMD, OBGynKenobi and Notes from Dr RW are all mentioned. I’ll disagree mildly (I think it’s more complicated than that) with the last sentence, but the reast is pretty good.
Los Angeles Times: Doctors talk shop on medical blogs
Web posts offer insight into the profession, but also raise patient privacy issues.
By Melissa Healy
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAugust 4, 2008
For physicians of a certain age, the weekly teaching session known as grand rounds is a ritual steeped in formality and tradition. Presided over by the profession’s graybeards, grand rounds are attended with white coats on and clinical details in hand.
Here, young physicians learn to accept their elders’ old-school admonishments with reverence and humility.
Grand rounds on the Internet, however, is another thing altogether. A weekly compilation of the Internet’s best medical blog postings, it is part classroom, part locker room, part group therapy session and part office party — a free-wheeling collection of rants, shop talk, case studies and learned commentary along with the occasional recipe, movie review or vacation slide show…
I’m always interested that I sound a little smarter in interviews than I do in actuality. That’s a good thing.
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