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PHYSICIANS: SCARED OF SOCIAL MEDIA?
STOP AND DIVE IN
By Dana Corriel, MD As a board certified internal medicine physician, Dana can be found across social
media platforms as ‘drcorriel’ and she blogs at www.drcorriel.com.
FEAR OF EXPOSURE
I hear from a lot of my professional friends, especially
the doctors I’m in touch with regularly, about the fear
of diving in — of starting out on their own social
media journey. They’re watching us all swim around
them, paralyzed by the thought of even dipping in their
feet. It’s OK to feel that way. We all start somewhere,
and many of us have experienced the same exact
apprehension, at the start.
That fear dissipates. It dissolves, like an Alka-Seltzer
tablet dropped into a glass of water. And while it fizzles
away with time, you can certainly prepare yourself for
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that dive by looking around you first — studying others
and seeing what works.
But here’s the bottom line, and the key to getting yourself
out there: there’s never a good time to dip into that water.
Think back to when you were young. You certainly
didn’t have to wait until you were an Olympic swimmer
to get into that pool and wade around. Not in the least
bit. You put on floaties! Then you got in and splashed
like a madman, and had a grand old time doing it. You
even blindly Marco Polo-ed your way through that
water! Somehow, you weren’t afraid. As you got
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