Doctors tell how they use social media as professional watercooler
David May, MD, describes Twitter as a doctors lounge. When he wants to discuss the latest journal articles or clinical research, there are always other doctors on hand to offer their opinions and add to the discussion. But unlike a doctors lounge, the discussion isnt limited to colleagues down the hospital corridor. It can include thousands of people from around the world.The social media world is such an intense, immediately responsive place that you can have tremendous amounts of traffic pointing out the good and bad about an article itself technically, about the concepts that were put forward, and about potential flaws that were in a paper,
What the influencers are saying
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AmericanMedicalNews
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Perficient Health IT
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Sherry Reynolds
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Healthcare_3.0
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Kevin Pho, M.D.
RT @amednews: Doctors tell how they use social media as professional watercooler http://t.co/QK7hd6Yz #hcsm
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KentBottles
Doctors tell how they use social media as professional watercooler http://t.co/ij2XXrNo
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Hisham Rana, MD
Study: Doctors tell how they use social media as professional watercooler (amednews) http://t.co/kVUDs6Lb - Published in JMIR.
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Dave Walker
25% of doctors use social media daily to scan or explore new medical information http://t.co/kUjau0Dk via @amednews - #hcsm
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iHealthBeat.org
Doctors tell how they use social media as professional watercooler (via @amednews) | http://t.co/dY0EbsNK #hcsm
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Greg Matthews
Social media as physicians' "professional water cooler." I like that. Featuring @briansmcgowan and @westr #mdigitallife http://t.co/NgOUVLzA
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