Re: Doctors & Social Media

[Prabhu Umesh]

Thanks Vivek for introducing me to this well esteemed group of people. Prof Gupta please forgive me for not knowing you earlier but all of your interest in medico-legal work what made me write this email

For last 20 years and following my own mistake with a baby I developed keen interest in patient safety, medical errors, why doctors make mistakes, professional regulation, why patient sue doctors, medicolegal work and medical leadership and institutional racism in UK. Given 100 lectures and conducted 70 workshops and advised 300 Indian doctors.

Given expert opinion on 28 children who have died in UK and now work as a MD of 600 beds hospital with a turnover of 267 Million Pounds.

I joined Twitter just a year ago and got 2600 followers. I tweet a lot about patient safety, why doctors make mistakes, racism, leadership helping doctors, preventing harm and so on. I have many followers from US, India, Australia, South Africa and mostly from UK.

My life has been completely transformed since joining Twitter.

I am now nationally known as a honest MD who cares a lot for patient safety and fairness for all doctors.

I am also known to fight against racism and restore pride back amongst Indian doctors.

Royal Colleges, GMC. Department of Health, BMA and 22 Indian big company HRs are following me and retweet my tweets.


In my hospital 450 less patients die per year, pressure ulcer, C Dif, MRSA all reduced by 90 percent and everyone knows about it via Twitter

All big leaders are coming to visit my hospital and most NHS leaders take notice and coming to visit us.

I got 20 invitations to teach other hospitals as to how we have managed to make 4 million profit this year.

My apology to anyone who thinks I am blowing my trumpet. Being an Indian I am very proud of my success and my contribution and 25 percent of our consultants are Indians and many of them are great leaders helping to make our hospital the best in UK

Regards
Umesh


Dr Umesh Prabhu Medical Director Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh FT
 

From: Vivek Chhabra [mailto:drvivek...@yahoo.co.uk]
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Subject: Doctors & Social Media
 

That's a very valid question and I have the same thinking before I was encouraged to get active on twitter after lying dormant for 2 years.

Twitter being a micro blog of 140 Letters is pointed concise and gives + takes powerful message unlike majority of long emails

Twitter connects you with wider audience globally in one go unlike emails 

Used properly a lot of knowledge can be shared eg. See my retweet about video on removing a ring from swollen finger without cutting either of them

It connects you with people thinking alike across the globe and echo the same sentiments by retweeting as minimum to build movement and pressure on authorities as media follows it further

FB and Linked in are for totally different purpose and used for totally different reason and comparing it with twitter is comparing mango with an apple but possible until and unless one has not tasted both.

Of course there are down sides of every social media if done without proper precautions and hence important to know same as well and also to resolve a "twitter conflict" by giving a "twitter hug"

I trust Dr Prabhu, Dr KK & Mrs Keightley-Lawrence will add more points further 

Those who wish to have a flavour of twitter can take out 10-20 min and go randomly through 40-50 tweets of mine @vcdoc by googling same.

Best wishes,

Vivek
--- People have only impairments, its the society which makes them disabled

On 11 May, 2014, at 12:40 PM, "Dr.M.C. Gupta" <mcgu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Ref: Meanwhile I will suggest and request you all to join Twitter.

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Dear Dr. Vivek,

Thanks for your suggestion. Your request is most politely declined. I detest the idea of joining Twitter. I joined facebook and Linked-in. I stopped using both. My time is too seriously occupied to be wasted on frivolties.

I am not biased against Twitter. But, before I consider your request, you need to answer the following

Serious question:

"What is that (amongst serious things) which I cannot get through e mail that I get through twitter?"

--M C Gupta

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On 11 May 2014 14:57, Vivek Chhabra drvivek...@yahoo.co.uk [medico-legal-queries] <medico-leg...@yahoogroups.co.in> wrote:

 

Dear Colleagues,

I am happy to coordinate for a 2-3 hrs workshop for doctors & social media with help of an international professional, sometime in next 3-5months at 2-3 places in north and west India. This professional is already building up trainings in non technical skills of some major Indian medical institutes and we can slot timings during future visits to cut expenses of international travel.
To take it further, i will need expression of interest and support of colleagues who are happy to coordinate for their own cities. Dr Bedi? Dr Nagpal? for Punjab. Dr KK, Dr N Saini? and some more in Delhi or Mumbai?
Meanwhile I will suggest and request you all to join Twitter as it is the weapon of social media which makes instant and sustained impact. If you are not sure just do a bit of observation and see my tweets by searching @vcdoc and see the impacts we are able to make internationally and directly on policy makers of 2 countries by tweeting and debating facts.
The minimum one can do is retweet easily which gets retweeted further and that builds a strong momentum in support of a cause forcing some action which we all yearn
So happy tweeting and hope to see you there.
Regards

Vivek
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[Dr.M.C. Gupta]

Dear Dr. Umesh and Vivek,

Thanks for telling me about Twitter. It does appear to have plus points. I will consider joining it. My main apprehension has been that I am busy enough right now and, at my age, it is more important for me to wind up my work and not to expand it. Joining any new medium is bound to result in one of the two things:

1--Viewing useless messages and thereby waste time.

2--Viewing useful messages and act upon them and thereby spend further time in the related action.

I understand that the above perspective is entirely personal and that Twitter has positive aspects that I did not know earlier and for explaining which I am thankful to you.

Also, Dr. Umesh, your achievements are certainly commendable.

--M C Gupta

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[Vivek Chhabra]

[Vivek Chhabra]

Dear Dr Gupta,

I fully agree with your points but then I have a suggestion which I feel may work in your favour strongly.

I will suggest you to not follow anyone but only tweet your points. The discussion or questions on that thread which will follow will help you to move on further. This will save your time and same link could be connected to mail group also for those not on twitter.

Given your valuable experience it will get shared with the young drs across globe who are more into tweeting than e mailing and build a rich legacy of yours.

You will have a mass following and that will help others to embrace this media who are sceptical otherwise about it.

Also a twitter mass movement under your or other leaders when supported by you and your followers on twitter will be picked by media and authorities forcing them to act, even if they do not want to.

This is what has started happening in the UK already and I am sure that twitter will help you and us to bring the changes in Indian medical system where we are unable to achieve because of various reasons 

Many thanks,

Vivek
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