Posted on September 3, 2009 by jdondoyle
by Sachin H. Jain, M.D., M.B.A.
In my second week of medical internship, I received a “friend request” on Facebook, the popular social-networking Web site. The name of the requester was familiar: Erica Baxter. Three years earlier, as a medical student, I had participated in the delivery of Ms. Baxter’s baby. Now, apparently, she wanted [...]
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Posted on September 3, 2009 by jdondoyle
From eSynapse at the Eccles Library at the University of Utah:
While many people are familiar with the most popular Web 2.0 applications such as Wikipedia and Facebook, there are a number of free and useful tools available for creating professional-looking projects. Gliffy is an online diagramming software package that allows users to quickly and easily [...]
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Posted on June 23, 2009 by jdondoyle
Doctor and Patient
Medicine in the Age of Twitter
By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D.
Published: June 11, 2009
I blog, I tweet and I use Facebook. And as I recently told a medical colleague, social media has been an enormously useful tool in my work.
“I can barely keep up with e-mail,” he snorted back. “I’m not about to open [...]
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