Physician/blogger Vineet Arora, MD, has a nice list today of ways that Twitter has helped advance her career. She writes on FutureDocs:
This may sound ridiculous at first - after all, social media is a big waste of time right? Wrong as some of you have discovered. Social media has opened doors for me by connecting me to a variety of people I would not have met.
Previously: Should doctors use Facebook?, Physician urges colleagues to think twice before they tweet, Social media brings up questions, ethical unknowns for doctors and Physician 2.0: Do doctors risk becoming irrelevant if they ignore social media?