Top 10 Medical Blogs Worth Following
Blogs play a crucial role in social media. They have long surpassed their beginning as a simple online journal to now being an important full-fledged informative and educational medium.
Today, often patients will search their symptoms online before making an appointment with the doctor. In order to educate and reduce the knowledge gap between a doctor and patient, blogging seems to be an ideal mode of communication and information.
At eMedEvents, we would like to highlight a few of these blogs that aid doctors in achieving the highest patient care satisfaction, improving their practice, keeping themselves updated with the latest trends, and understanding new policies and procedures.
Our top 10 recommendations for medical blogs are:
The Nerdy Nurse: This blog is the brainchild of Brittney Wilson, BSN, RN. It was started in 2010, and since then has become the ‘go to’ blog for all questions related to the nursing field. It covers topics ranging from nursing products and services, healthcare, personal branding, and nursing. The audience is not just limited to healthcare professionals but is popular with the general public as well.
Nurse Code: Nurse Code is another amazing blog any nursing student, practicing nurse, or healthcare professional may want to follow. Beth Hawkes, who has an extensive work experience as a staff development professional specialist, established Nursecode.com to provide knowledge from landing a job to the first day at work. She has recently released a book called Your Last Nursing Class: How to Land Your First Nursing Job: The ultimate guide to landing your first nursing job...and your next! She constantly contributes to various online universities, blog post & articles, and is also a well-known speaker.
Dr. Mike Sevilla: Dr. Sevilla started as an anonymous writer for “The Doctor Anonymous” in 2006, with the goal of trying to bring the reader into the examination room with the doctor and patient. The blog caught the attention of several readers and in 2011 it was revamped to focus on family medicine topics. Since family physicians are the first point of contact for people of various age groups, Dr. Mike Sevilla thought it was important for the blog to become a discussion board that dealt with issues related to family medicine and primary care physicians. He has several other social media platforms that allow audiences to connect with him.
Go Practice Blog: This is a blog dedicated to helping independent medical practitioners nurture the best relationship between a practitioner and patient. Its object is to help the independent practitioner to provide the best patient care and boost efficiency while attaining increased revenue and staying up-to-date with the latest industry trends, news, and leadership strategies.
Emergency Dentists: Their mission is to educate readers on the importance of oral hygiene. Over half a million Americans do not visit a dentist as recommended every six months and 1 out of 5 say they haven’t visited a dentist in years. Emergency Dentists covers articles on dental topics that can improve overall health.
Healthcare Economist: Dr. Jason Shafrin discusses issues pertaining to healthcare policies, value-based purchasing, insurance markets in healthcare, and Medicare policies.
TEDMED blog: This is a division of the famous TED conferences dedicated to the health and medicine industries. It is a platform that allows scientists to share their stories, information, engaging content, and inspire the public. It collaborates with think tanks, government agencies, medical research institutes, and industry leaders.
Health Care Law Today: This blog covers topics related to business and legal challenges in the healthcare industry. Health Care Law Today was created by Foley & Lardner LLP. It provides in-depth information on the latest news and developments in health care law and how it impacts healthcare professionals in their day-to-day lives.
mHealthWatch: What started out as a hobby grew into one of the top mobile marketing blogs in America. Jared Reitzin started mHealthWatch after purchasing mobilemarketingwatch.com. It covers a wide variety of topics that provide support to all healthcare professionals.
KevinMD blog: This is a blog that shares stories and insight into the healthcare ecosystem. Kevin Pho started blogging in 2004 as KevinMD and has now become a major blog that gets cited by several media outlets. Thousands of authors who work as healthcare professionals contribute to KevinMD. The blog gets over 3 million views monthly.
Looking for more medical news to follow on social media? Check out our recent blog post on the ‘Top 30 Medical Associations to Follow on Twitter’.
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