Dr. A Show 202 Tonight: KevinMD

Thursday, January 27th, 2011 at 9pmET

I invite you to join me tonight for Doctor Anonymous Show 202 when our guest will be Dr. Kevin Pho who is "Social media's leading physician voice" according to his LinkedIn page. Kevin is author of the KevinMD website. We had a great conversation recently which I will be playing on tonight's show. One topic we'll be talking about will be his upcoming keynote address at the Texas Medical Association meeting this weekend. This keynote address will be broadcast live over ustream begininng at 9:30aET on January 29, 2011 at this link.

Another topic of conversation is health policy issues like health care reform/repeal and Congress' continued avoidance to pass a permanent fix to the SGR. We also dialogue about the current state of the medical blogosphere. And, finally, in the last segment of the interview, the tables are turned in the "Ask Doctor Anonymous" segment. What will KevinMD ask me? You'll have to tune in to find out...

As some may know, the network that I am a part of, BlogTalkRadio, is going to be going through some changes. And, I have written on this blog before that I am considering a different home for the show. I'll make my announcement tonight about what is going to be happening to The Doctor Anonymous Show.

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. 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.

Dr. A on Technology Today Podcast

I was asked to be a guest on the Technology Today Podcast on Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 4pm Eastern Time. This show is hosted by Ajay Gupta who is a cyber security expert. And, each month on his show, he highlights the area of Health Information Technology. On the show's blog this week, they wrote the following post called "Is Social Media A Health Care Delivery System?"

Social media is a lot of things to a lot of people. Individuals use it to reconnect with old and make new friends. Businesses have certainly begun levering social media as an avenue to reach consumers. Can it really serve as a mechanism for the health care industry to deliver medical care?

Join us Thursday at 4pm Eastern on Business.VoiceAmerica.Com as we discuss this and look into how doctors are beginning to engage their own patients and even wider populations on sites such as facebook, twitter, YouTube and through individual blogs.

Dr. Michael Sevilla, of DoctorAnonymous fame joins the show to share his insights from over four years of activity in incorporating various forms of social media into his medical practice.

You can listen live to the interview at Business.VoiceAmerica.Com at 4pm Eastern Time on Thursday, January 27, 2011 for the Technology Today program. You can join the discussion at 866-472-5790 and by text at 240-731-0756. I also encourage you to check out their facebook page, you can find them on twitter at @TechTodayRadio, or you can e-mail the host at a-gupta@technologytodayradio.com - Hope to see you for the Technology Today show!

Dr. A Show 201 Wrap-Up: Future of Family Medicine Blog

Thanks so much to the medical student authors of the Future of Family Medicine blog for being guests on Doctor Anonymous Show 201 last week. Not only have they been featured on KevinMD, but they have also been recently featured on the website Opposing Views for their post called "Is Family Medicine A Waste Of Talent For New Doctors?"

Now, I know I should not be biased, but I can't help it. I'm really hoping that you vote for the Future of Family Medicine blog in the Medgadget Medblog Awards. They are in the Best New MedBlog category. Voting starts on January 27. Vote early and vote often LOL

In the video above, I ask each of the three co-authors about the blog and about their path toward medical school in the first place. You can listen to the entire audio podcast in the sidebar of this blog. You can also go to the show's iTunes page, download Show 201 and listen anytime. I also encourage you to check out the show's Facebook page and hit the "Like" button at the top. Finally, if you enjoyed this video, I invite you to check out my YouTube page for more. Thanks for stopping by!

Alzheimer's #MDChat: My Thoughts

It's no secret that I wasn't a fan of MDChat 1.0 when it first came on the scene. (Feel free to read my initial review here.) But last night, I saw a tweet out there saying that the Jan 25, 2011 #MDChat would be devoted to Alzheimer's disease including an interview with a couple of people with the diagnosis. This idea intrigued me.

I know that this wasn't the first time someone was ever interviewed via twitter. But, I wanted to see with my own eyes how this would play out in real time. Even though I was on call tonight, I caught some bits and pieces of the interview live. And, I also reviewed the twitter stream and transcript.

Not only were the stories amazing, but something else I was pleasantly surprised by was that the participants in the "chat" - they didn't chat at all (for the most part) until the Q&A portion of the hour. They respected the instructions and did not cloud up the #MDChat hashtag.

So, I know I was harsh on the first go-around. But, this time, I applaud Phil and this innovative edition of #MDChat. Thanks to Gwen & Libby for sharing their stories. And, thanks to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine along with the Alzheimer's Association for their participation in the chat. Well done all around!

Dr. A Show 202 Preview

Just some random announcements to share with everyone. First, I know that I haven't mentioned it in a long time on this blog. But, I invite you to check out this week's Grand Rounds blog carnival over at 33Charts.com. For those who do not know, Grand Rounds is the gathering of the best blog posts for the entire week on one medblog site.

There is a great theme on the 33Charts site this week which I will call "Pay It Forward." The theme this week is not the usual self-promotion of your own blog posts. This week, people are encouraged (and required) to plug the blog post of other people. How cool is that? I made a suggestion myself, but I won't share what that is - Hehe.

This is going to be a big week in the life of Doctor Anonymous - particularly on Thursday, January 27th. At 4pm Eastern Time, I'm going to be interviewed for the entire hour on the live internet radio show called Technology Today. Of course, the topic will be medicine and social media. One of the topics we are going to be talking about is my Medical Economics cover/article from last month. You can listen to the live audio stream for the show show live at the VoiceAmerica Business Channel site on Thursday.

Finally, Doctor Anonymous Show 202 will take place live at 9pm Eastern Time on BlogTalkRadio. As you see in the video above, I'm excited about the featured interview which I will share during the show (you'll have to watch the video above to see who that is). Plus, with all the changes announced by BlogTalkRadio, I'm also going to be announcing what will be the next step of the show. Hope to see you Thursday for my live interview and for the Dr. A Show...

Dr. A Show 201 Tonight

Thursday, January 20th, 2011 at 9pmET

I invite you to join me for Doctor Anonymous Show 201 where I will be interviewing the authors of the blog called "Future of Family Medicine." I will be joined by medical students who started the blog a few months ago. In the video above, I talk with two of the authors from the blog (You'll have to guess which two they are Hehe).

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. 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.

Dr. A Show 201 Preview

Hope you can join us this week for Doctor Anonymous Show 201 when our guests will be the authors of the blog called "Future of Family Medicine." This unique blog is written by medical students and the topics vary from health policy, to concepts like the Patient Centered Medical Home, and today's post called "The New Deal for Primary Care in Community Health Centers." Join us on Thursday, January 20, 2011 at 9pm Eastern Time on BlogTalkRadio. Also, check out the video promo above. See you for the show!

Medical Social Media Awards

With last weekend's golden globe awards and miss american pagent, not only is it award season for actors and beauty queens, it's also award season for medicine and social media. Last week, I put out this tweet reminiscing about how I miss that the medblog awards were no longer going on - or, at least that what I thought. Just a few minutes later on twitter, I got a message back stating that the awards were just going to be announced.

Yesterday, Medgadget announced on their website the 2010 Medblog Awards sponsored by epocrates and lenovo (pretty impressive sponsors). There will be seven categories that will be recognized. The nomination process seems like a quicker timeline, in that nominations close in a few days this coming weekend. I was lucky enough to be nominated way back in 2006 in the new medblog category. The very popular (and infamous) Dr. Flea blog won that year.

The other award that I wanted to share with you is the shorty twitter awards. It's kind of funny because I really pushed to win my category a few years ago during the first year of the award. Another competitor in the same category really came after me and eventually won the category. Also, if you look at this year's site, the category of health is not even what they call a "major" category. Oh well.

For most other people writing this type of post, this is where they ask you to nominate them. Me? Well, I'm asking you NOT to nominate me for these awards. Am I still bitter about what happened before? Maybe. But, I know that there are a lot of other better bloggers and "twitterers" out there. I used to really get caught up in this stuff. Not anymore.

It's just more interesting for me to monitor twitter and facebook as people post things like "If you nominate mine, I'll nominate yours." Or, "If you vote for mine, I'll vote for yours." The politicking and the gamesmanship that will occur over the next few weeks - that's is what I look forward to every year....

Physicians in Social Media

I've been pleasantly surprised by the attention that I have received from my Medical Economics cover last month. It's amazing how many opportunities that have occurred since the magazine came out. I'll be talking about some of them in the coming weeks. Last week, local TV news interviewed me about the article.

Thanks so much to WKBN/WYTV for interviewing me last week about the magazine. In the video above, I have put together a series of stories for the 24 hour news cycle of local news - which I find really interesting. I make some appearances on the morning show, and the anchor there said some nice things at the end of the first story. All this from me spending too much time on facebook and twitter - HA!

Dr. A Talking Social Media with HMCNews

Jessica Levco from the HealthCare Marketing & Communications Newsletter interviewed me a few months ago at the Swedish Medical Center Health Care Symposium in Seattle, Washington. Of course, we talked about medicine and social media.

In the video above, we chatted about why I think physicians need to be online, and at least be familiar with health information resources. I also encourage you to check out today's edition of HMCNews where I profile a couple of interesting stories.

Addendum: Apologies if this is not working. I got some feedback on that. Maybe better access the video through their direct link here.