I thought it was about time to write a post about the woes of doctor-patient email. Last week, a friend was having some issues with his phone, so his family doctor’s office couldn’t get in touch to inform him of the date of his specialist’s appointment. He didn’t know about the trouble until he [...]

  Update (Jan. 15th, 2010): Thanks to Dr. Vartabedian (@Doctor_V) for featuring this campaign on his blog 33charts! Here it is: I snapped a photo of the Privacy-In-Practice posters that University Health Network (UHN) has posted in its hospitals. Looks like “Facebook, Twitter or blogs” are the big shots here. Do you think there are [...]

Facebook, Twitter, RSS, etc. may have changed the way I communicate, but in some arenas, the mere acknowledgement of social media still moves at a glacial pace. Naturally, I was surprised to see that the local hospitals’ notice boards had been outfitted with colourful new posters. Privacy tips, they were entitled. The first one I [...]

DrV’s new post, a discussion on why teenagers don’t use Twitter (itself inspired by a 15-year-old Morgan Stanley intern’s tech report), started me thinking on some conversations I’ve had this week with various teenagers aged 14 to 17. Now these are pretty web-savvy teens – they have their own domain names, build websites for their [...]