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What doctors tweet about when they tweet about cancer

Brian Reid
Social media
May 20, 2014

When doctors tweet about oncology, they tweet about breast cancer. A lot. Last year, about 4,000 doctors tweeted about cancer generating somewhere in excess of 80,000 tweets. And more than one in four — a whopping 26 percent — mentioned breast cancer, according to an analysis of physician tweets that we conducted for the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting.

That doctors talk overwhelmingly about breast cancer is either a ho-hum …

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What doctors tweet about when they tweet about cancer

Doctors who tweet aren’t ones who bill Medicare for millions

Brian Reid
Social media
April 10, 2014

The government dropped a gigantic dataset: details on nearly every single procedure performed by a U.S. doctor on a Medicare patient.

The release was greeted with some serious gnashing of teeth, at least as far as doctors were concerned. The American Medical Association, which has always been staunchly opposed to the release of this sort of data, made sure it’s objection was — again — on the record. MedPage Today leads …

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Doctors who tweet aren’t ones who bill Medicare for millions

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