FIRST, DO NO HARM
Information, today, is the most invaluable commodity. This holds true for all professions and even beyond, as it holds true for all aspects of life. That it is made easier to get hold of, that it is made more accessible because of the internet, could only be for our benefit, more than anything else. For example, compare the price you would have to pay to get hold of a medical book telling you everything about diseases and ways of keeping your family healthy with the price you would pay for using the internet for say, a couple of hours? More often, a couple of hours would even be negligible, especially if you have a broadband cable that you're paying for at a fixed rate every month.
I recently discovered that there is a compilation of such information on the internet. 'Yeah, right.' you say, 'and I recently discovered that there are now covenience stores called 7-11.'
The thing is, the articles in this compilation are written, not only by doctors, but by doctors who also happen to be bloggers, AND these are doctor bloggers (or blogger doctors) from all over!
This week, Dr. Emer's site hosts the 12th edition, which they dubbed the 'Grand Rounds.' Go and visit him and I'm pretty sure you'll be hooked. It's nothing like reading a medical digest at all, where you will most likely not get past the first page. The articles in the Grand Rounds come on as more personal and we feel the real people behind them. Like in the message I left, I said, 'Personally, I find it interesting and really heartwarming to get in touch (although maybe I should have said, 'grasped a sense of...') with the persona behind the white coats and beyond the clinic. In a sense, it brings back the doctors of the olden days, the GPs as we would call them, who used to make house calls, who would eventually evolve from doctor to friend, usually helping out with more than just the illnesses. Or at least, it's the best simulation to be had, when it comes to that.'
And when you go and visit, do leave a little message for Dr. Emer, ok? I mean, hey, otherwise you'd be paying for a PF so which would you rather? hehe...
The first level of cure is always prevention. And to prevent ourselves from getting sick, we have to know about things and who better to get the information from than the doctors themselves? So here they are trying to keep us informed, what are we going to do about it?
Hippocrates is known today as 'The Father of Medicine.' After founding a medical school in the island of Cos, in Greece, he soon developed an 'Oath of Medical Ethics' for physicians to follow. With the doctors here keeping us in the know about all things medical, I see it as one way for them to keep up with the first line of the oath. And that first line says,
'First, do no harm.'
Information, today, is the most invaluable commodity. This holds true for all professions and even beyond, as it holds true for all aspects of life. That it is made easier to get hold of, that it is made more accessible because of the internet, could only be for our benefit, more than anything else. For example, compare the price you would have to pay to get hold of a medical book telling you everything about diseases and ways of keeping your family healthy with the price you would pay for using the internet for say, a couple of hours? More often, a couple of hours would even be negligible, especially if you have a broadband cable that you're paying for at a fixed rate every month.
I recently discovered that there is a compilation of such information on the internet. 'Yeah, right.' you say, 'and I recently discovered that there are now covenience stores called 7-11.'
The thing is, the articles in this compilation are written, not only by doctors, but by doctors who also happen to be bloggers, AND these are doctor bloggers (or blogger doctors) from all over!
This week, Dr. Emer's site hosts the 12th edition, which they dubbed the 'Grand Rounds.' Go and visit him and I'm pretty sure you'll be hooked. It's nothing like reading a medical digest at all, where you will most likely not get past the first page. The articles in the Grand Rounds come on as more personal and we feel the real people behind them. Like in the message I left, I said, 'Personally, I find it interesting and really heartwarming to get in touch (although maybe I should have said, 'grasped a sense of...') with the persona behind the white coats and beyond the clinic. In a sense, it brings back the doctors of the olden days, the GPs as we would call them, who used to make house calls, who would eventually evolve from doctor to friend, usually helping out with more than just the illnesses. Or at least, it's the best simulation to be had, when it comes to that.'
And when you go and visit, do leave a little message for Dr. Emer, ok? I mean, hey, otherwise you'd be paying for a PF so which would you rather? hehe...
The first level of cure is always prevention. And to prevent ourselves from getting sick, we have to know about things and who better to get the information from than the doctors themselves? So here they are trying to keep us informed, what are we going to do about it?
Hippocrates is known today as 'The Father of Medicine.' After founding a medical school in the island of Cos, in Greece, he soon developed an 'Oath of Medical Ethics' for physicians to follow. With the doctors here keeping us in the know about all things medical, I see it as one way for them to keep up with the first line of the oath. And that first line says,
'First, do no harm.'
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