The medical blogosphere -- the modern equivalent of a doctors lounge -- is experiencing growing pains. Gone are the musings of, among others, Dr. Flea and Barbados Butterfly -- popular doctors who wrote anonymously about their medical practices on blogs for the world to read on the Internet.
"I think that the recent issues pertaining to employers shutting down blogs and the Flea situation are part of the normal growing process of blogs," said Pho, who uses his name on his blog and who decided early on that he would never write about his patients. (Kevin, MD)
Said Pho, "The ground rules are still being written. Over the next couple of years, once people are more aware of the phenomenon, it's going to become more mainstream. I think there's tremendous interest in how medicine is run."
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