GeekNurse, an excellent blog by a NICU nurse in New Zealand, has been closed, and it wasn’t his idea:
Beware those who don’t even try to distance your public persona from your job and blogging.
GeekNurse, you’ll be missed.
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I think there is a huge difference between blogging while being employed by an institution and those on their own.
The latter includes physicians in private practice, who could actually use blogs to build up their public persona. The former could choose to go anonymous OR get a blessing from their employer.
Ultimately I think the institutions firing bloggers will be penalized by bad PR (Blogger Firings Down, Hirings Up). But in the meantime caution is advised.
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Of all the medical blogs I scan, I have to say, Geek Nurse’s stories were among the most compassionate, touching and informative. He is missed, and hopefully will be available again, in a more anonymous fashion, if that’s what it takes. The rest of you medical bloggers – keep the light alive…
I keep wondering when it will be my turn to get busted (hopefully never)- but I don’t think I have as much at stake as someone in the healthcare industry.
Quick correction: Geek Nurse is a PICU nurse (not NICU). And yeah, he was great.
I went through awhile back and deleted almost all of my posts about my employer. Just not worth the risk in the overall scheme of things.