I was reading an interesting article the other day that used the term “cyberchondriac.” I couldn’t stop laughing at the apt description of a patient who used the internet to gather information about their health concerns. Cyberchondriacs have been described in the popular media as ranging from those with neurotic excess to hypochondria. In my [...]

We’ve been talking a lot here about physicians and the business of running a medical practice. Lately, I have been seeing a growing number of physicians advertise on television. This makes me wonder – Should physicians advertise for their services?
In some circles many feel that it is unethical for physicians to advertise. It is sort [...]

A recent poll by the California HealthCare Foundation found that even though a substantial amount of patients use the Internet to obtain their health information, few patients make use of the physician rating sites, and fewer still (2%) used the information available to change their physician. However, this could change as more people become aware [...]