Dr. Vartabedian has an online blog that offers some great advice for fellow physicians and doctors who may be dabbling in social media, especially in a blog post from last month called: Doctor-Patient Dialog on Social Media: A Bad Idea?. Here, Vartrabedian stresses that engaging in specific conversations about a patient’s medical health using social media tools, like a blog, is inappropriate and carries risks let alone exposes both parties to privacy violations. And yet, he also still makes it a point to stress how important it is for physicians to connect with their online E-patients.
So what is ...