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With the festive season upon us…why not open the presents early? We have updated the podcasting archives

The Social Media Conversation

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Talk 2: The conversation discussing the RISE (Read, Interpret, Share, Explore) of social media in the context of clinical medicine

LITFL Medical Blog on Facebook

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Life in the Fast lane has just reached 1,000 ‘likes’ on it’s Facebook Page and to celebrate this momentous occasion we thought we would share some of the statistical analysis with you, the reader…

Facebookville General Hospital

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Facebookville General Hospital has a number of well established Departments, some seriously important staff members and the occasional patient. The Life in the Fast Lane team have combined with the Utopian College of Emergency for Medicine to help coagulate our disparate colleagues to create a unifying hospital and departmental structure.

Fakebook Consultations Banned

Medical indemnity insurers are advising their members that communicating with patients via Facebook could mean stepping over the strict boundary defining acceptable doctor-patient relationships as reported in 6minutes today.

Australian General Practice and Social Media

Griffith University is undertaking a nationwide survey in an attempt to explore Australian general practitioners’ World Wide Web, Internet and Social Media / Web 2.0 usage to deliver health care in the early 21st century. This survey is the first Australia wide study into general practitioners’ usage trends and impact associated with such modern communication applications and health care delivery. The study is being organised by Dr Wayne Usher and this is the Link to the survey

The perils of social networking

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A Sydney telco employee (Kyle Doyle) has learned the hard way the perils of sharing too much information on Facebook after he was caught by his boss chucking a sickie after a big night out. In an email exchange doing the rounds of office blocks, Mr Doyle was asked by his employer to provide a medical certificate verifying a day of sick leave in August.