Health 2.0 News: From Facebook to the Anatomy of Trolls July 29, 2010

• Facebook friends with your doctor? 5 things not to do: Advice from consumer experts at Angie’s List

• Are Doctors Liable for Comments on Physician Social Networks?

At some point the courts will test the limits of physician dialog on physician networks.  And hopefully fear of legal retribution won’t hobble these new forms of interaction which stand to improve the quality and efficiency of patient care.

So if you are concerned about dialog on a medical web 2.0 platform, you should be just as concerned with dialog around the water cooler.

• Costs of communication on email, Facebook and Twitter

• PharmaBook – Facebook and Pharma

• The Anatomy of an Internet Troll

• A Farewell to Scienceblogs: the Changing Science Blogging Ecosystem

• 6 Brain Sensors You’ll Be Using Soon

• The $2 billion error

Fascinating story from the early days of biotech: How three errors in a 166 amino acid protein sequence ended up being the deciding factor in a showdown between two companies who both wanted to patent the genes behind the protein that triggers red blood cell formation.

• How Chance Can Affect Perceived Effectiveness of Clinical Treatment Outcomes