The Mayo Clinic Social Media Center #MCCSM

The Mayo Clinic is doing wonderful things. Shocking, isn’t it?

This time they’re teaching the community how to use the latest and greatest healthcare tools. Not gamma-knife radiation or surgical robots, but Twitter and Facebook.

Social media platforms might be some of the most powerful tools available to improve your health by allowing doctors and patients to work together as a team. This team has a lot of potential, but it needs some good coaching for us to use these tools effectively. I’d like to help them.

What do you think?
(Available in HD on YouTube if you’d like to see my dilated pores).

Dermdoc Drills Down Vitamin D in High Def!

You know the sun makes vitamin D. Did you know that it does so in just minutes?

After a few minutes of sun, your skin stops making vitamin D.

After a few minutes of sun, your skin starts making skin cancer.

Lying out at the beach or the pool for hours this summer will do far more damage than good.

What do you think, should Dr. Oz be worried? (Or should I stick to podcasts?)

What do you think about the sun and your vitamin D?

If you have trouble with the HD, then click here for the YouTube video.