Academic OB/GYN

Something has got my hackles lately….anonymous medbloggers.

I just don’t get it.  If a physician is going to take the time to create a blog to spread his or her opinions and expertise, why wouldn’t they do it under their own name?  In a way it really bothers me.   There is so much information on the web, and a great deal of it is poorly sourced and unreliable.  I would like to think that physicians will publish medical information that is accurate, at least as well as we know, and that the MD or PhD credential will lend credibility to their writings.   But to me it just destroys that credibility when the doc chooses to blog under a psuedonym.

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