Comments on: E-patients’ Role in Healthcare Social Media: Do Doctors Hate Blogs?

By: Kelly Young

Kelly Young — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:12:15 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Carolina.

Did you listen to the CME video? It’s been a couple of years, but I think the doctor said “We have to keep them (patients) off of the internet.”

I don’t believe that this discussion is about my experiences. I’m reporting what I heard that doctor and numerous other doctors say. It just seemed like a good question to raise that night when I wrote this post: Do Doctors Hate Blogs? I think the answer is obviously, Some Do. But it was a way to provoke thought and discussion on the matter with a bit of humor or sarcasm. Hopefully, that comes across even though you are on the other side of the world. I have some good friends in your country who I have met through this blog.

By: Carolina Mendoza

Carolina Mendoza — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:58:31 +0000

Dear Kelly,
I’m sorry you had bad experiences with physicians and other people. I think the only way to protect our patients from inaccurate and missleading information is to collaborate with them, but also educate them on how to judge medical content. You said it, that is a great solution.

By: EllenSchnakenberg

EllenSchnakenberg — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:19:21 +0000

“I think if God could come to earth to speak to us man to man, then a doctor can have a conversation with a patient, respecting him as a thoughtful human being.”

I don’t know if I told you this Kelly, but this is one of my new favorite quotes…

How do you always do that? You put into words the things that we wish we could say… if we’d only thought of it!

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By: Kelly Young

Kelly Young — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:28:59 +0000

Thanks for the smile, Kathryn.

By: KathrynGray

KathrynGray — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:17:04 +0000

I’m not sure if I’m more mad about the general insults in the article or his comments that ‘nurses are better patients because they are used to following doctors orders!!’ Hello Dr Dark Ages – that is not my experience of nurses. In fact it is a little known fact that when it comes to many things (I’ll just use one example) it is often the nurse that rings the Dr to alert them to the fact that Mrs Smith’s potassium is so low if it’s not fixed now she is likely to awaken on a cloud and playing a harp!! (added for visual purposes only).
In my humble experience – the general reason many doctors don’t like questions is because they don’t know the answers. In the dark ages – doctors were viewed as gods, and they liked it. Many people still look at them the same way and it strokes their ego (not all but a lot). In Aged Care Nursing where I have worked for the past 17 years or so – there was a huge turnaround in 1997 after a certain Govt Act in Australia called the Aged Care Act. There were many reforms but to me the most significant one involved a legal requirement for patients and if patients wish their families to have an active part in their care. Put easily – gone were the days when the bossy old matron told patients what to do. Since then things have changed – they aren’t perfect but it’s a start. I admire the older nurses who despite being brought up in a system that gave them power – so many have embraced the ‘new way’. Of course there are always exceptions. But essentially nurses do not run round follwing doctors orders – and this little black duck certainly does not, has not and never will. As far as Dr Google is concerned – I just might be your worse nightmare – along with my fellow RA Warriors.
Apologies for the rant but I could take that dear chap and his supporters down a dark alley and slap them with my knee supports!!

By: Kelly Young

Kelly Young — Fri, 21 May 2010 16:05:11 +0000

What’s going on Beth?

By: Beth Feeback

Beth Feeback — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:20:52 +0000

I’m so discouraged.

By: Ching Ya

Ching Ya — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:04:46 +0000

I’m not sure too, but mis-communications do happen often no matter where we live in. I have both experiences in meeting a considerate, humble doctor who’s willing to listen and guide; while another never listens, impatient & refuse to explain further when we hope to know more. Maybe we’re not familiar with the medical terms but some of us are willing to learn and be educated, I just hope they know that and try before assuming we are all not interested in knowing the facts.

With social media nowadays, preventing people to tell stories is impossible. Hopefully there will be the day when both sides are reaching an understanding that people need to be educated; at the same time, a little bit more patience, humbleness and sympathy from one another.

Too good to be true huh? Maybe someday.

By: Kelly Young

Kelly Young — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:35:25 +0000

Hopefully, it is only this bad in the US / Canada. I have noticed that doctors who openly interact with this blog are not based in North America. (However, I know of some who read & don’t comment. What do they think?)

Do all countries have such a class arrangement with doctors & patients? Patients are assumed to be too unintelligent to understand things.