Physicians’ presence on social media can boost hospital reputation

The business saying, “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it,” does not necessarily hold true in medicine, according to James Sims III.
“In medicine, a reputation is built over a hundred years and may be impossible to lose,” Sims, the social media manager for Northwestern Medicine, said during a presentation at the Women in Medicine Summit.
Surprisingly, social media plays an important role in building that reputation and extending a hospital’s already influential reach and reputation, Sims said.
In 2018, Sims and colleagues (Read more...)

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