About The Orthopedic Logbook

I started blogging in the late half of 2006, mostly personal journals of my plunge into the practice of medicine. But I slowly found out the dearth of socio-economic as well as cultural problems affecting so many health care issues and particularly in orthopedics, taunted to be another "expensive" specialty. Adding to that is the lack of local research and data on medical issues in the locality. And just as anything else in the hinterlands or boondocks, everyone seems to be mum about it.

So I'm blogging most of it, to the best of my wit. I do not claim expertise on so many medical issues and concerns, and I specially hate politics of bickering, but if nit picking these issues and problems help promote awareness and positive critical appraisal of the issues at hand, I will blog it. After all, the echoes in the boondocks should not just reverberate to the hinter dwellers only.

Thanks to Emergiblog, and The Medical Network Blog, and to Dr. Lei at Genetics and Public Health. They encourage medical/health bloggers to answer the following questions which is a modification of those recommended for web resources by The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. (Philippines don't have one)

The purpose of the questions is to give the readers of medical/health related blogs the ability to evaluate what they are reading.

The responses for The Orthopedic Logbook are as follows:

1. Who runs this site?

The Orthopedic Logbook is run by Bone MD, a board certified orthopedic surgeon practicing in the South Mindanao area.

2. Who pays for the site?

None. It's hosted on a free site. I initially used Wordpress then migrated to Blogger.

I do most of the tweaking of the design (as far as a free blogger account would allow me to) and I have total control over the content.

As of now, I don't earn anything from maintaining the site. But I plan to put ads in the site and probably receive renumeration from the ad links and actual contracts with specific companies arranged through (I hope)

If ever there will be ads on this site I have no financial interest in any of these companies, other than what they pay me to advertise on my site. As of this time, I have not received any gifts from any companies that advertise on the Orthopedic Logbook.

3. What is the purpose of the site?

I wanted to try blogging as a medium to discuss, share and learn from experiences /issues affecting medical practice in general and orthopedic practice in particular here in my area. The Orthopedic Logbook might be just what I'm looking for. But I am not advertising as my readers' MD nor Orthopedic Logbook stands as an alternate to readers' personal physicians.

4. Where does the information come from?

Mostly from what I hear and read around- the news, journals, net and experiences of colleagues and superiors.

The majority of my posting is anecdotal.

All patients, staff and hospitals are either composites or have identifying information concealed or altered to allow for patient confidentiality.

Links to information's sources are given whenever applicable

5. What is the basis of the information?

I answered this in question number four.

6. How is the information selected?

I am a beginner on this niche so my postings are based on what I perceived as important to my learning and what might interest the readers.

7. How current is the information?

It will be current only depending on the sources and links given. Often, I do update some post to improve accuracy and factual information.

8. How does the site choose links to other sites?

My links are based solely on sites I have read and found interesting .

9. What information about you does the site collect, and why?

The site collects no information about anyone other than what is recorded on the site meters.

That information is used just for my own personal interest in seeing where my readers come from and keeping track of how much traffic this blog generates.

10. How does the site manage interactions with visitors?

Not like a patient- physician interaction I hope.

I will answer comments when necessary! I sometimes put up mock polls, for purposes of knowing what my readers think and results are not sold for monetary gains.

Spammers are blocked.

All opinions are welcome. Post containing profanity or harassment are removed.

Ubundok is a board certified orthopedic surgeon practicing in Southern Mindanao, Philippines. He writes mostly about his medical encounters, public health views, mountaineering, blogging, badminton and just about everything his scalpel would allow him to.