http://disqus.com/by/suetodd/enTue, 04 Aug 2009 04:27:14 -0000http://mashable.com/2009/08/03/izea-sponsored-tweets/#comment-13871904<p>So why if Twitter has to make money, which all business does, can it not be twitter that makes the dosh and perhaps by putting adds in the interface (linked to current chat on your twitter stream) like Google does? That way you can ignore them or not and they don't take up your twitter stream?</p><p>I'm with the others I'll be all a unfollowing the spammers. Its a royal pain in the posterior.<br></p>suetoddTue, 04 Aug 2009 04:27:14 -0000http://markhawker.tumblr.com/post/134147728#comment-13404204<p>Hi AnneMarie,</p><p>Sorry I didn't mean to suggest that all clinicians don't care. I know thats not the case. But like teachers the really good ones can sometimes seem to be hugely outnumbered by the rest.</p><p>There are a good number who come across that way though, that's another discussion.</p><p>This may not have been the best example and no it wasn't one I was involved in from a clinical/training perspective. It was actually a loved one and I know it did hurt and on that occasion the clinician was very matter of fact.</p><p>I wonder if your patients really didn't feel painor felt it was best to say nothing, or just even assumed pain is part of the gain? No pain no gain? Not because of you but because of future tests to come and being labelled as a problem patient?</p><p>Yes there was gain from the results. But what got me then, and gets me now is the 'well its the only way' attitude. It may well be the only way and I've not had time to look at it, though Mark makes good comments above. But clearly the clinician involved then hadn't and thought it was a waste of time - or that's what came across.</p><p>It was evident from the expression on his face and how eager he was to get shot of me, that this particular clinician wasn't interested in using anything innovative to change the patient experience and I don't believe for a moment I've been the only person to take him to task on this.</p><p>What I was trying to say but maybe it didn't come across well, was that it doesn't matter sometimes what the innovation is, if the people who need to use it aren't interested it may never work.</p><p>And while you have to hope that most clinicians would welcome change/innovation that helped patient outcomes etc. even if its just better training, whatever, this isn't always the case and where that clinician is the senior person they can quash things right away.</p><p>So you could have your iphones and some software that together speed things up, but if person at top of the tree don't like it? Then they can really mess it up.</p><p>I think I wasn't generic enough?</p><p>Sue</p>suetoddMon, 27 Jul 2009 13:04:02 -0000