{"id":4299,"date":"2004-09-18T16:54:13","date_gmt":"2004-09-18T16:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4299"},"modified":"2004-09-18T16:54:13","modified_gmt":"2004-09-18T16:54:13","slug":"medbloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4299","title":{"rendered":"Medbloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jon Udell has a great post on Medbloggers<\/a>, something that I didn’t really realize existed until he wrote about it. Though we’ve got political bloggers, library bloggers, law bloggers, so it makes sense there would be medical bloggers.<\/p>\n

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Medbloggers<\/a><\/h3>\n

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The numbers are small. Starting with Pho’s blogroll, I began assembling a list of the medical bloggers who cross-reference one another. What I found confirmed Pho’s estimate that there are no more than 100 of these medbloggers, many of whom are aggregated at medlogs.com<\/a>. Nor are these medblogs yet widely subscribed. Pho today has 14 Bloglines subscribers<\/a>. One of the founders of the movement, medpundit<\/a>, today has 58<\/a>. Those numbers are one or two orders of magnitude shy of the readerships of many of the tech blogs I follow. But unless fear of malpractice strangles this baby in the cradle, that will be a temporary phenomenon. In the long run there will be many more people hungry for informed analysis of medical issues than for informed analysis of tech issues.<\/p>\n

This looks like a great opportunity to watch the blogging meme replicate throughout another community of practice<\/a>. I’ll be fascinated to see how it changes, but also is changed by, that community. Corporate techbloggers, for example, are learning to walk a fine line between acceptable sharing of information and punishable transgression. Medbloggers face a different set of issues: libel, privacy, and of course malpractice. See this American Medical News article<\/a> for a useful overview. [Jon Udell’s Weblog<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As you can tell from some recent posts I’ve started following medical information on Pulmonary Fibrosis online, mostly inspired by this article. I even found a blog called Bronch Blog<\/a> to subscribe to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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