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How Social Media Is Transforming Medical Care In The Developing World
As a physiatrist in a pediatric burn unit in Santiago, Dominican Republic, Dr. Carolina Camilo was frustrated. While she was trained in treating damage to nerves and muscles, and the other staffers in her office were qualified to perform surgery and give anesthesia, there was no one who knew how to prevent her young patients from scarring and losing the use of their burned limbs.
“I did not know how to use splints or face masks or special bandages,” Dr. Camilo says, mentioning just a few of what she terms the “creative” ways of intervening with burn patients to ensure their full rehabilitation.
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The Danger of Social Media for Healthcare Professionals
For people in the healthcare industry, the line between the professional and the personal is a particularly difficult one to navigate in the digital realm. It’s perfectly natural to want to use social media as a platform to vent about a trying day, to source new opinions on a difficult case or even to humblebrag about a job well done. But doing so may put your job — and your entire healthcare career — in jeopardy.
The rise of the nursefluencer
Health care influencers who have flooded the site within the past few years say they’re fighting back against that kind of social media misinformation. Many nurses and doctors on Instagram combine the cute, aspirational lifestyle aesthetic of regular fashion and beauty influencers with actual medical tips from a vetted professional. There are now so many medical professionals on Instagram that at least one hospital has created an entire position to govern it.
How to Use Social Media in Healthcare: A Guide for Health Professionals
Modern lives are going digital, and healthcare is no exception. Social networks have become an important health resource, and not just for millenials. Nearly 90 percent of older adults have used social media to seek and share health information.
Maximize Your Pharmacy Social Media Efforts
When it comes to your pharmacy social media efforts, things can get overwhelming for businesses looking to grow their following and promote their brand. Knowing which social platforms to use is the key to your pharmacy’s social media success.
Social Media and Nursing: How and Why Nurses Need to Use It to Inform
Social media as a daily part of our lives can be informative, entertaining and has the potential of helping a nurse’s career and nursing profession. We can exchange ideas and discuss health issues within communities and a broader public. Of course, our foremost responsibility is to patients and their privacy.
The Best Nurse Social Media Accounts to Follow
Many of us rely on social media for education, entertainment, and to stay current in our nursing careers. Social media is especially convenient to help to stay up-to-date and keep in touch if you’re traveling as a locum provider, or to catch up during a break in your shift. But with new social media platforms popping up all the time, it can be hard to determine where to find the best nursing information and decide which ones you want to follow.
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The Social Network Where Doctors Swap Gross Pics of Patients
Figure 1 is for doctors, nurses, EMTs, and the rest of the professionally unsqueamish to share the latest morbidities from their shifts. Sure, some of the pictures are straight up medical oddities. But just as often, users post because they are stumped and looking for a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, nth opin
How Social Media Is Transforming Medical Care In The Developing World
When a doctor in the Dominican Republic needed to learn how to treat burn patients, she turned to Facebook.
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Mayo Clinic Social Media Network
The Mayo Clinic Social Media Network (MCSMN) was established in 2010 to improve health globally by enhancing the use of social networking tools throughout Mayo Clinic and by gathering a collaborative learning community of those interested in applying social media in health care. Members include hospitals, healthcare communications professionals and medical providers, as well as patients and caregivers from around the world.
MomMD
With a community of over 1 million and 11,000+ active members, MomMD is the largest and best site devoted to connecting women in medicine. Our goal is to encourage and support women physicians, residents, medical students, premeds, and nurses, not only in their careers but also in their everyday life. We invite you to browse the site and enjoy the free resources.
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Connecting the dots in healthcare social media.
WEGO Health
WEGO Health is a different kind of social network, built from the ground up for the community leaders, bloggers and tweeters who are actively involved in health online. WEGO Health is a platform for committed health advocates to foster new relationships, gain access to helpful resources, and to grow their communities. And it’s free.
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