How has your role as a pediatrician changed?
Parents connect with each other online using mommy blogs and social media, and now pediatricians are connecting with parents in the same way. In this video, HealthMaker Alan Greene, MD, chief medical officer at Scanadu, explains.
Transcript
As it turns out, my black bag is in my car, and I do make house calls. But that's not the way that most of health care happens.
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One of the things that's most important is that parents have connected with each other online in unprecedented numbers.
The mommy blogs and parent networks and websites and resources that are available have this very vibrant conversation going on.
[MUSIC PLAYING] So one of the things I try to do is
be part of that conversation as a resource. [MUSIC PLAYING]
There is a lot of misinformation out there. I try to give at least from my perspective and my context to the science that exists. [MUSIC PLAYING]
I think that's one of the most valuable things pediatricians can do is to join that public discourse, and that can help inform and deepen the time you spend
with patients. [MUSIC PLAYING]
So they've already read what I think about this topic, and they've heard what I've said about it, so we can focus on their particular need
in the time we've got together. [MUSIC PLAYING]
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