Healthcare Blogger Code of Ethics

Our first submission to the Healthcare Blog Gallery is called Dr. Wes - Musings in the Life of an Internist, Cardiologist, and Cardiac Electrophysiologist.

Here is his submission information:
Your Name
Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC
Name of Blog
Dr. Wes
Website
http://drwes.blogspot.com
Description of Blog
Primarily a blog about cardiology, cardiac electrophysiology (heart rhythm disorders), and musings in the life of a doctor […]

I have renamed it the “Healthcare Blog Gallery.”  I guess the innate fear people have of clowns and “meat on a stick,” as Dean put it has scared folks from the use of the word “Carnival.”  I guess I can live with that, since carnivals do seem to bring a fair amount of riff-raff with […]

Everyone seems to have made it over here.  Thanks for posting the logo on your websites.  I definitely like posting on WordPress and like the look of the blog better over here. 
I will post a summary of what Dean said in his last post on the page where people submit their blogs for the […]

An issue has come up that we need your feedback on.
Due to the fact that Dr. Rob is getting a number of questionable requests for membership (spam blogs, empty blogs, blogs under construction), I propose that we establish a set of General Submission Guidelines to clarify what we consider an appropriate healthcare blog.
With this idea […]

I am still working out the bugs, but if you want to post the code, please e-mail me at healthcare.bloggers@gmail.com with your site name and description. I will get you the proper HTML for the code. The following should appear on the sidebar (if I do my job right):
Something like this:

Member

Perspective
Confidentiality
Disclosure
Reliability
Courtesy

http://medblogcode.blogspot.com/
If this does […]

It took a while (and a bunch of e-mails that did not get through), but I finally got the “Official” logos. Yes, that is plural.
We have two new logos; the first is the previous logo contributors to this blog have agreed to.
This is meant for healthcare workers who blog (the initial intent of the […]

Well, since the last post, the following things have happened:

We have had a number of people “signing up” for the code. We are up to 21 on the list.
Highlighting that list is Fat Doctor, whose experiences were part of what brought on this code in the first place. Welcome! (This is not […]

I like it. It represents doctors, not Merchants and Thieves.
Is everyone fine to move forward with this? I propose that all supporters put a post on their blog that invites people to sign up. Anyone who wants to be included on the list must e-mail healthcare.bloggers@gmail.com
Thanks.

The Healthcare Blogger Code of Ethics has caught some attention recently. The Detroit Free Press ran an article which highlighted this code.

The author of medblogcode.blogspot.com composed, with the help of other doctors, a medical blogger code of ethics. The code covers issues pertaining to confidentiality, privacy and commercial disclosure.
“I think doctors […]

I agree with the name change (see banner above). If anyone has problems with this, speak now or forever eat your peas.
Here is the tally for the logo: Number 8 (see below) got 5 votes (or at least people said it was OK), and was the leader by far.
#8
Number 2 (below) […]