Medgadget 2009 MedBlog Awards

Thanks to Medgadget and Epocrates for another fantastic awards competition. Congratulations to the winners and the nominees. Thanks to this event I have found some fantastic new reading material that I would not previously have stumbled upon and I believe that the hosting of these awards has enhanced the credibility of the MedBlogger community and increased general awareness of the amazing writing and reporting created by independent healthcare professionals.

After a long and grueling campaign and thousands of votes cast,we are ready to announce the winners of the 2009 Medical Blog Awards.

Thanks to Epocrates, a proud supporter of these awards, helping to promote the medical blogosphere for the second year in a row.

The writing team at Life in the Fast Lane are humbled to have won an award for the second year in a row – this year the Best Clinical Weblog of 2009. Hopefully we will soon be recognised as a blog by Google and the clinical educational can be extended to a wider audience.

Other lucky winners in the 2009 Medgadget Blog Awards include:

• Best Medical Weblog of 2009 – Gary Schwitzer’s HealthNewsReview Blog
• Best Literary Medical Weblog 2009 – StorytellERdoc
• Best Health Policies/Ethics Weblog of 2009 – ACP Advocacy Blog
• Best Medical Technologies/Informatics Weblog 2009 – ScienceRoll
• Best Patient’s Blog 2009 – Wheelchair Kamikaze

We congratulate all the winners. We feel that during the last year, the medical blogosphere has matured, and it now displays the level of writing, reporting, and commentary that challenges traditional media. Medgadget is happy to be a part of this vibrant and influential community, and we’d like to thank all the medbloggers out there for writing and reporting, and the readers for being such a great and supportive audience. – Medgadget.com