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What does it mean to be a surgeon? And what does it mean to do surgery?
Do you love being in the operating room? Do you like the art of medicine? Do you like the technical side of medicine? Do you like the challenge of medicine? Do you love helping people, perhaps saving people, through [...]

After the successful health 2.0 conference in San Francisco last week, there have been several different “where to next?” discussions across the blogosphere. Accompanying these discussions are articles such as the one in Newsweek recently on web 2.0 and the coming of health 2.0, emphasizing “health as a social concept” and therefore, its commitment [...]

There’s some debate currently around the exact nature of health care reform that we may expect with the “googlization of everything”. According to Manhattan Research this week, a new study of “cybercitizens” shows that more U.S. adults used the Internet than doctors to obtain health and medical information over the past year; a noticeable change [...]

Consider the following…(From Manhattan Research and Greystone.net)

99% of physicians are online for personal or professional purposes, and 83% consider the Internet essential to their practice.
Physicians are turning to the web and their Blackberrys for clinical information, increasingly using them to replace physical sources such as journals, textbooks, drug references and conferences.
Physicians who participate in social [...]