Show 159 Wrap-up

Thanks so much to Brandice for being on Doctor Anonymous Show 159. She is a social worker at a hospital and for the first part of the show, we talked about the care of geriatric patients - especially those with a diagnosis with dementia. There are a bunch of medical and psychosocial issues that these patients and these families have to deal with. In the video clip above, Brandice gives advice to families in considering some differences between extended care facilities.
Following the show, I had a little post show chat session with my friends on my video stream site. As always, you can listen to the show on the player above. Or, if you like, you can download the show and listen anytime, by clicking here. Don't forget to become a Facebook Fan of the show! And, if you like the show, you can download more from my iTunes page. Hope you're having a great weekend!

Dr. A Show 159 Tonight!

Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 9pm ET (0100 UTC)

Hope you can join me tonight for Doctor Anonymous Show 159 when our guest will be Brandice. Check out yesterday's post for a full preview. Our topics for the show tonight include the following: how her job in social work assists the hospital in the care of patients with psychiatric and mental health issues, Brandice's book Columbus Groove, her recent purchase of the Apple iPad, and whatever else comes up in the midst of our discussion.

If you are new to the show, I encourage you to catch us live. There is a great chat room that also goes on. You can even see my shining face on the webcam. In addition, you can call into the show to say hello. Can't catch us live? That's ok. You can listen anytime after the show as it is saved as a podcast so you can listen anytime!

For first time Blog Talk Radio listeners:
*Although it is not required to listen to the show, I encourage you to register on the BlogTalkRadio site prior to the show. I think it will make the process easier.

*To get to my show site, click here. As show time gets closer, keep hitting "refresh" on your browser until you see the "Play/Chat" button. Then, of course, press the "Play/Chat" button.

Show 159 Preview: Brandice

Hope you can join me for Doctor Anonymous Show 159 when our good friend Brandice (pictured to the left above) will be returning back to the show. Among her many hats that she wears, she is an author, and she was a guest on Dr. A Show 114 to talk about her book called "Columbus Groove." Check out the show in the player below. Or, if you like, you can download the show here and listen at any time.

On Brandice's blog, she has a posted entitled "Social Work: I'm Not A Baby Snatcher." In this post, she shared that she has a Masters Degree in Social Work - Cool! She is currently working in a hospital with patients who have psychiatric and mental health diagnoses. She and I have talked on a number of occasions of our interest in mental health care and the importance of a team approach - which include social workers and physicians.

So, in addition to this, we'll be catching up to see how her book is doing - AND - her recent purchase of the Apple iPad. I hope you can join us for the discussion on Thursday, April 15th, 2010 at 9pm Eastern Time (0100 UTC) for The Doctor Anonymous Show. Don't forget to become a Facebook Fan of the show! (And, check out the video promo below) Hope you're having a great week!

Show 157 Wrap-up: Autism

Thanks to everyone who check out Doctor Anonymous Show 157 talking about April being National Autism Awareness Month. It was a short show, but one that I think was important to help get the word out on awareness. You'll see the video above in which I open the show. To see more video clips of the show, head on over to the Facebook Fan page of the show.
You can listen to the show above on the player. Or, if you like, you can download the show by clicking here, and listen anytime. In addition to becoming a Facebook Fan of the show, I encourage you to subscribe to the show via iTunes by hitting this link. Have a great weekend everybody!

Dr. A Show 157 Tonight: Autism Awareness

Thursday, April 8, 2010 at 9pm ET (0100 UTC)

After taking a little break from the show, I hope that you're able to join me for Doctor Anonymous Show 157 where I will be talking about April being National Autism Awareness Month. There is definitely still a lot of controversy surrounding this topic, and I hope to steer clear of most of that. I did an interview on the topic - on local TV news - earlier this week. I invite you to check it out in the video below.
I also wanted to share with you a podcast that was done a year ago by our friends Annie and Burl talking about two parents journey. You can check out the show by listening to the player above. Or, if you like, you can click here, download the show, and listen to it anytime. What I hope to do with my show tonight is to bring you some information about the Autism Spectrum and what that means.

If you are new to the show, I encourage you to catch us live. There is a great chat room that also goes on. You can even see my shining face on the webcam. In addition, you can call into the show to say hello. Can't catch us live? That's ok. You can listen anytime after the show as it is saved as a podcast so you can listen anytime!

For first time Blog Talk Radio listeners:
*Although it is not required to listen to the show, I encourage you to register on the BlogTalkRadio site prior to the show. I think it will make the process easier.

*To get to my show site, click here. As show time gets closer, keep hitting "refresh" on your browser until you see the "Play/Chat" button. Then, of course, press the "Play/Chat" button.

The Doctor Anonymous Interview

Thanks so much to Gregg Masters for inviting me on his live podcast last night to talk about Physicians & Social Media. I told a little bit about how I got started in social media and some of the things that I'm doing now - like last month's coverage of the HIMSS conference helping out Dr. Val and Better Health.

There are a couple of ways that you can listen to the show. First, you can listen on the player above right here on the website. Or, if you click here, you can download the show and listen anytime. Don't forget to become a Facebook Fan of The Doctor Anonymous Show by clicking here. Thanks again to Gregg! I had a great time!

Dr. A Interviewed Tonight!

Curious to see what it's like for me to be in the interview chair? Well, that will happen tonight at 8pm Eastern Time (Midnight UTC) when I will be a guest of Gregg Masters (pictured above) on his BlogTalkRadio show called "Perspectives in Health System Transformation."

In addition to asking about some background information about me (which is also on my LinkedIn page), our discussion will be about physicians in social media. So, this should be a lot of fun tonight. He also told me that he'll ask me about the social media coverage at HIMSS by Better Health (check out the snapshot video above from HIMSS - including cameo appearance by EpatientDave). Hope to see you tonight for the show!

Happy Doctor's Day!

If you didn't already know, March 30th is National Doctor's Day. (But isn't every day - Doctor's Day? hehe) Last year, I shared a little bit about the story behind Doctor's Day - and I encourage you to take a read of that post as well.

This year, the hospital got the docs snuggies - yes, snuggies. Now, don't get me wrong, I like it - it's good stuff. And, yes, I'll be wearing this all day today. So, wish your favorite doctor (other than me - hehe) a Happy Doctor's Day. And, if they don't have a snuggie, then go ahead and get them one today!

Join me in San Francisco in June!

You probably heard me talk on Twitter about a conference I was invited to be a part of. I'm happy to share with you that I will be attending Digital Pharma West in San Francisco in late June 2010. The dates for the meeting are June 28-30 at the Le Meridien San Francisco hotel.

I have never been to this meeting before, but according to the promotional materials, "This conference is designed for professionals from the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries whose responsibilities include marketing, emarketing, ebusiness, advertising/promotions, brand management, product management, information technology, and regulatory affairs."

As you can see from the image above, I will be on a panel with Dr. Rob Lamberts and Dr. Bryan Vartabedian. As you may remember, we also shared a panel last fall at BlogWorldExpo 2009. I guess the organizers liked our work - hehe.

We are the featured session on Wednesday, June 30, 2010. The title of the panel is "Listen to a Unique Conversation between leading HCP Marketers and Three Top MDs/Social Media Activists." The panel is lead by Jason Appel, Director Relationship Marketing, Amgen. And, as you can see in the image above there are a lot of questions for me to think about going into this session.

Exclusive to friends of Doctor Anonymous (this means you!), you get a 15% discount by giving my promo code P622DRA during the registration process. How cool is that? So, if you want to see me, Doc_Rob, and Doctor_V chat about medicine and social media - in addition to an excellent rest of the program, join us at Digital Pharma West in June!

Dr. A Show Tonight!

Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 9pm ET (0100 UTC)

I invite you to join me tonight for Doctor Anonymous Show 156 where our guest will be a friend of mine whom I haven't spoken to in a long time. Dr. Gerry Tolbert is his name and he is currently a resident physician in Family Medicine in Greenwood, South Carolina. I met Gerry when we were heavily involved with the American Academy of Family Physicians - I believe when I was a resident and when he was a student.

Gerry found me on Facebook recently and we've been chatting. One day he was like, "I'd like to come on the show sometime and chat." I think this was around the time of the Apple iPad announcement. As of yet, Gerry has no blog or podcast - but I'm hoping to change that a little bit - hehe. So, this should be a fun show tonight! (also check out the video post below)

If you are new to the show, I encourage you to catch us live. There is a great chat room that also goes on. You can even see my shining face on the webcam. In addition, you can call into the show to say hello. Can't catch us live? That's ok. You can listen anytime after the show as it is saved as a podcast so you can listen anytime!

For first time Blog Talk Radio listeners:
*Although it is not required to listen to the show, I encourage you to register on the BlogTalkRadio site prior to the show. I think it will make the process easier.

*To get to my show site, click here. As show time gets closer, keep hitting "refresh" on your browser until you see the "Play/Chat" button. Then, of course, press the "Play/Chat" button.