If everybody's blogging, who's listening?
As you might have noticed, this blog doesn't generate many comments. I can think of a number of possible reasons for that, including this blog's specialized nature, how busy medical professionals are, the lack of awareness of this blog and my suckitude at medical blogging.
But there's at least one other possible reason: [irony] Everybody who might otherwise gather here is blogging him/herself. [/irony] Via the Health Care Blog comes this report (*.pdf file) on the medical blogosphere, which apparently contains more than 13 million blogs. It focuses primarily on docs who blog and looks at such issues as patient privacy, blogger anonymity/psedonymity and whether medical bloggers are disclosing possible conflicts of interest.
There are all sorts of medical blogs, however, including those posted by hospital administrators, insurance folks, laypeople (patients or relatives of patients, particularly) and health journalists.
I've got a set that I look at daily for general news about the profession and its major issues, but that's perhaps a half-dozen. Looking them over takes some time, but the payoff is story ideas and invaluable background. I'm open to suggestions if you're familiar with a medical blog you think I would particularly benefit from reading.
