Blogging is Important to Doctors
Blogging is Important to Doctors!
The proliferation and enhancement of the internet has made pivotal effects to almost every aspect of human life and culture. A tool that has been viewed to be solely military utility has flaunted and been used for many other purposes. This time, people of different field of expertise and profession from different parts of the world can now interact and share knowledge through the internet. On the part of the most busy practitioners – the doctors and the nurses – blogging has been their other side out of the surgical room whether they are still on their medical scrubs or not.
The issue arising from this trend varies according to culture and social perception. The very critical issue about these practitioners’ blogging and writing about their life in the ER is the possibility of compromising the identity of their patient and therefore would lead to the violation of the standard acceptable medical ethics. And since blogs are considered at some point as journal, it can be searched by search engines and if there are error in terms of the medical procedures or advice, chances are that people would believe the error as just what happened in 2003 when a student from a renowned university claimed that a particular sexual thing could possibly reduce a risk of breast cancer. The latter issue has even been published in major internet based journals and news authorities. The article has been dumped fallible and the author explained that it was meant for entertainment only. But why does nurses, doctors, and all those in medical scrubs people still want to have their blogs and write about their everyday experiences in the hospital? Here are some of the reasons why they should and they wanted to.
Information
There are medical cases that cannot be shared comfortably by a patient and because of the internet people can ask questions about their condition anonymously. By this, nurses and doctors too can answer and give opinion without having to know the name or the identity of the person asking. Today is the information era and a lot of people depend on the internet for information. Medical information is not that easy to understand and unless there are experts to interpret those, people can never get it.
Anti-Stress
The life inside the hospital is not that easy. Medical practitioners meet different kinds of people and with different medical cases. Their job is simply exhausting. For many medical practitioners, blogging is their way of outpouring everything they have gone through their shift by simply writing it down. Their blogs would also be their avenue of expressing their opinion on something that they cannot personally debate on with their co-workers in the hospital.
Other reasons would be personal of the medical practitioner but as long as there people like them willing to share what know, many will be able to benefit from them. But since usually of the medical bloggers do not give their identity online, it is still better to consult from a doctor personally than to depend solely on medical blogs.
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