Medical Blogging - don't do it?

The CMAJ has published a provocative and thought-provoking piece on medical blogging [1]. I like the article, but not the title. Do it - but responsibly. I think / hope that some of these issues will be discussed at the Medicine 2.0 conference in Toronto. There will be a medical bloggers panel at the conference

The idea of developing guidelines is interesting, though a Medical Bloggers Code already exists [2].




Reference

1. Mark Otto Baerlocher, MD and Allan S. Detsky, MD.
Online medical blogging: don't do it!
CMAJ 2008; 179: 292 doi:10.1503/cmaj.080757.

2. Healthcare Blogger Code of Ethics. http://medbloggercode.com/the-code/. Accessed: 2008-08-20. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/5aDEkONrK)