Do you find yourself constantly going to WebMD for the latest in health care news? Maybe you’re looking for a blog by a doctor who like you, goes to the grocery store and lives in a community. We’ve reviewed three blogs, each written by American doctors – they’re easy to read and worth a look!
CNN’s The Chart offers a continuously updated blog (our favorite kind), with a medical twist on current events and the latest in medical and health news. The five sections of the blog are unique to most health sites with features on: children’s health, the brain and its behavior, sex and you, sleep and one featuring Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s newscasts and personal articles.
The Chart is written by medical correspondents for CNN’s Health, Medical and Wellness unit Elizabeth Cohen and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a neurosurgeon. The blog’s format is easy to use and understand with the unique newsy feel most people recognize as CNN’s brand. More importantly, it is continuously trending. If you want health and wellness news as soon as it’s published, this is a site to add to your bookmarks.
Dr. Bryan Vartabedian, a pediatric gastroenterologist at Texas Children’s Hospital and assistant professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine writes a blog titled 33 Charts where he expounds on health care’s evolving role in social media, or just health care, or just social media.
The writer/doctor posts nearly every day about topics that range from his favorite doctor blogs to choice books on medicine, vaccines and his thoughts on social media. The site is easy to navigate and his fairly large, thoughtful commentator base makes his posts interesting.
Proclaimed social media’s “leading physician voice”, Kevin Pho’s blog KevinMD is often cited as a leading medical resource. It has been written about in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, by CNN and now by us. The blog is written by experts around the country, by Dr. Kevin Pho himself and makes our top doctor blog list for not only its content, but its capabilities as a blog.
The blog is techy, which makes it easy to use if you’re familiar with complex Web pages, but if you’re not, it may appear jumbled. Don’t worry, a few minutes on the site and you’ll be navigating it like a pro.
The search tool that pops up at the bottom of the page makes sending a post to your blog, Twitter or Facebook simple. However what is most useful is the search capabilities KevinMD offers. Often scouring a blog is difficult (33 Charts) because it makes you go through each old post in order to retrieve what you’re looking for. That’s a lot if you’re looking for something from 2007! KevinMD’s pulls up everything in your search criteria making finding old posts simple.
Do you want to share an interesting post about women’s genetic makeup with your Korean mother-in-law? The pop-up on the bottom of the page will also translate the information in one of 11 languages!
On KevinMD the most commented on posts are listed on the right side of the page, as well as old posts.
Check out these blogs and let us know our thoughts about them.
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