June 13th, 2013
A Wiki World for Physicians
C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. and John Ryan, MD
CardioExchange’s John Ryan interviews Harvard Medical School professor C. Michael Gibson, founder and editor-in-chief of WikiDoc.org, a “living textbook of medicine” online. Ryan: Why did you create WikiDoc? Gibson: Innovation increases as free and open access to information grows. Our mission statement is that “Healthcare is enriched when medical information flows freely.” Traditional textbooks, typically in paper format, are […]
April 18th, 2013
Advice for Physicians: How to Behave Online
Larry Husten, PHD
Although the internet represents “a new frontier in medicine” for physicians and patients, it also presents numerous and novel challenges to professionalism, according to a position paper from the American College of Physicians and the Federation of State Medical Boards published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The paper offers physicians a new conceptual “framework for analyzing medical […]
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