Thanks to Grand Rounds uber-host Nicholas Genes for his continued work with Medscape to promote Grand Rounds, and the MedBloggers who participate in it.
Each week Nicholas interviews the coming week's Grand Rounds host and posts the resulting column online a fullweek in advance of the Rounds.
Nick may have missed his calling, since he sent me a list of interview questions that were interesting and conducive to rich responses. Journalism as a second career, Nick?
Anyway, I liked this description of me:
It's clear from her posts that Camahort is an independent thinker, when she's writing about who pays for employer-based coverage or her friend's struggles with the system. HealthyConcerns is very often about the personal, too, such as her posts about her own experiences with colds and about missing that final goodbye to a dying relative.
And I also liked that he included my pitch for why inclusive Carnivals are the best kinds:
She prefers the self-organization of blogs in Grand Rounds to companies and algorithms trying to hand-pick what's hot or not: "The blogosphere is full of companies trying to say they can tell me who the most 'popular' and most 'authoritative' and most 'relevant' bloggers are...and without exception I think those companies do a pretty piss-poor job. I find nearly every new blog I start reading through links from other bloggers. The role of [weekly compendiums like Grand Rounds]...is to let people go to one place to find folks writing about subjects they care about. And to let them have a mini-surfing guide...a place to read great content and find new voices."
Now, I better buckle down and do a great job with Grand Rounds next Tuesday!
Thanks Nick!
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