{"id":1053058,"date":"2011-02-16T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/reasons-to-stop-blogging\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T18:47:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T22:47:49","slug":"reasons-to-stop-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/reasons-to-stop-blogging.php","title":{"rendered":"Reasons to stop blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2608\/483\/1600\/Pen.1.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/414a8_Pen.1.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>I know medical bloggers who stopped blogging or closed their Twitter accounts for similar reasons to <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/03\/03\/twitter-staffer-stops-blogging-after-backlash\">those summarized below<\/a>:<\/p><p>\"He says in his final blog post that while he intended the personal blog to be a place where he could talk about ideas, his posts had started to &ldquo;spark whole conversations that I never intended to start in the first place, conversations that leech precious time and energy while contributing precious little back.&rdquo;<\/p><p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/philbaumann.com\/2010\/03\/03\/better-to-play-it-safe\">related thoughts<\/a>:<\/p><p>\"So many things can go wrong (with social media) if you don&rsquo;t do it right. You can get stampeded and lose the game. Playing on the sidelines is more appealing.<\/p><p>If you run a hospital and decide to establish a vast living presence on the Web, people will say bad things about your doctors, your nurses, your waiting times in the ER, your food. You&rsquo;ll have to deal with HIPAA. There&rsquo;s also a chance that you&rsquo;ll say something you&rsquo;ll regret. Playing on the sidelines is more appealing.\"<\/p><p>On the other hand, consider this:<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_efGy16KV4yU\/SCc9usSRN4I\/AAAAAAAAAHQ\/p4av_W-w3Rk\/s1600-h\/duty_calls.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/414a8_duty_calls.png\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br>Duty calls. Image source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xkcd.com\/386\/\">Xkcd.com<\/a>, Creative Commons license.<\/p><p>See a perfect example why you must read medical blogs in this post by a practicing electrophysiologist: <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/CzjIN\">The first 4 months of a new era - anticoagulation with dabigatran<\/a>. You can't find this first-hand real-life experience in any textbook or medical journal.<\/p><p>References:<\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/03\/03\/twitter-staffer-stops-blogging-after-backlash\">Twitter Staffer Stops Blogging After Backlash<\/a>. GigaOM, 2010.<div><a href=\"http:\/\/philbaumann.com\/2010\/03\/03\/better-to-play-it-safe\">Better to Play It Safe<\/a>. Phil Baumann, 2010.<\/div><\/div><div><p>Posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/casesblog.blogspot.com\/\">Clinical Cases and Images<\/a>. 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