by Matthew Rehrl MD | Facebook, Healthcare Ethics
If you are a healthcare organization, delete your Facebook Reviews Section. It’s bad for business, and, whether or not it is legal, it’s certainly ethically dubious. Healthcare visits can be intensely emotional, resulting in an binomial distribution of highly...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Facebook
If you are a Healthcare Organization with a “Review” subsection on your Facebook Business Page then I strongly recommend you remove it For some products – such as running shoes, camcorders, or new ipad – a Review Section can provide great...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Facebook, Social Media, Twitter Ethics
Please read the excellent, but disturbing medical article Obesity in social media: a mixed methods analysis. You will quickly understand the need for physicians and other medical professionals to be more engaged on social media. In this study, which looked at the word...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Facebook, LinkedIn, Social Media, Twitter, YouTube
Is social media becoming more important in medical research? Yes. The graph above depicts the number of references found using PUBMED, the leading medical research database. Although the total number of references/year (>450 for both Twitter and Facebook in 2017)...
