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This brings up a point. I work for a public university. There was no danger that I was going to be fired because of my online activity countering quackery. The same is most definitely not true of people working for private companies and community hospitals.
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Even so, the anxiety involved in having to explain to high ranking university and hospital officials why the COI I was being accused of was bogus was very taxing. I almost quit my skeptical activities over it.
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I ended up reporting a harasser to the police: it’s a reason I remain almost entirely pseudonymous on social media. Most of my followers know who I am, so just don’t want to make it easy for extremists to target me.
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Yeah, I use a pseud after someone on Reddit pieced together where I worked at the time and showed up. It was terrifying.
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Good points. Another reason to be anonymous is fake patient reviews. I’ve received just one saying horrible things about me. It doesn’t affect me due to my position. But I’m capable of stepping outside my academic box to see why some docs would want to avoid these.
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Yep. I get a lot of those. They're easy to identify because they almost alway mention my blogging or Twitter, which I NEVER bring up with patients unless they mention it first.
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