Doctors: Become a key opinion leader using social media

Social Media in Medicine
August 21, 2012

Key opinion leaders (KOL) are still one of the most important corner stones for the marketing machines of pharmaceutical companies. Their network, expertise, reach and authority is what pharma is interested in. We’ve written about KOL stardom in the past and how to attain it. In this post I’d like to take a closer look at the implications social media has on KOL’ism.

First off, let me tell you one thing …

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Doctors: Become a key opinion leader using social media

Google knows more about certain diseases than physicians ever will

Health Technology
January 21, 2012

Professor Gunter Dueck, is a calm and eloquent german mathematician who’s also the CTO of IBM Germany. He studied mathematics and philosophy and eventually turned out to be a great writer and speaker. Unfortunately he only does so in German, which is why it doesn’t make much sense to post a video of him here.

In a recent talk he gave (German only), he talks about whether a connected and …

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Google knows more about certain diseases than physicians ever will

How a Google printout can strengthen your relationships with patients

Patient
August 30, 2011

If you are a practicing physician then it probably already happened to you more than once. Mature and responsible patients tend to Google their symptoms, medication and illnesses on the web – a phenomenon commonly referred to as cyberchondria. Nine out of ten women more or less decide which oral contraceptive they will take and not the doctor does. She will just let the doctor know whether his choice …

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How a Google printout can strengthen your relationships with patients

Implications of the placebo effect for physicians

Medications
June 6, 2011

The placebo effect is somewhat of a mystery in modern medicine. Wikipedia calls a placebo  “a sham or simulated medical intervention.” Commonly, when we refer to a placebo we mean dummy-drugs, but the placebo effect has further applications in medicine, such as sham surgery or false information.

Now, a great video produced by an Australian journalist from the ABC Science Show has compiled …

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Implications of the placebo effect for physicians

Your blood test and the need for better designed results

Conditions and Diseases
January 18, 2011

Either as a patient or as a physician there’s a very high chance that you’ve ever got your hands on a simple blood test.

These range from very basic ones to complex ones with multiple pages and are substantial to any cinlical evaluation. Blood tests are probably one of the most performed tests in a clinical environment with direct patient contact. Also, if you’ve ever seen a typical blood test from …

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Your blood test and the need for better designed results