My Social Media Talk at the 2014 Western AF (atrial fibrillation) symposium

 How can social media improve AF patient and provider interaction? It was an honor to speak at the seventh annual Western AF symposium this past weekend in Park City Utah. Once in the shadow of the Boston AF symposium, Dr. Nassir Marrouche (@nmarrouche) and his colleagues at the University of Utah have elevated Western AF to elite status. It’s a special meeting because it brings the world’s leading experts in atrial fibrillation to a cozy and welcoming place. The “vibe” if you will is informal and warm–serious, yes, but conducive to interaction. Perfect, if you ask me. My task was to explain (in 20 minutes) how social media could improve the care of patients with atrial fibrillation. It was a striking contrast; giving a presentation on social media amongst such ‘hard” science felt as if I was responsible for the mandatory humanities course for science and engineering students. The irony, now, of course, is that I feel medical education is deficient in such topics. You know, those that help a doctor understand the person, not just his or her disease. I thought it would be worth showing you my slides and the words that went with them. My spoken words are in italics. (The first is sort of a bio–regular readers can skip it.) Slide 1: My lens: John Mandrola’s perspective on AF Hi. My name is John Mandrola. I practice clinical electrophysiology at a 500-bed community hospital in Louisville KY. Though I still implant devices, t...
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