New Post Feature: What I Really Do

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August 20, 2008 - 9:16 pm email to a friend printer friendly view / write comments

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Dr. West

   We’ve now got a couple of hundred posts from the last nearly two years, and frankly that’s presented the new dilemma of making it hard to find the general summary information people want.  There are a a few dozen posts about first line treatment of advanced NSCLC, for instance, but many visitors to this site may just want to start with one or a few posts that summarize the highlights, and they can chase down details if they want to.   By the same token, many of the posts are filled with raw numbers, which some people like, but plenty of others may not prefer, either because they actually don’t want to see numbers, or because they want the short answer and don’t need to see the evidence (trust me — I’m a doctor…).

   So what I’m thinking is that while it will still be helpful to add posts on new treatments and new developments, similar to the core concepts should be a summary folder of “What I Really Do” that describes the treatment approaches, the actual combinations we prefer, and how we make decisions for a particular treatment setting.   It can be specific to each faculty member — so people here can see what I do vs. what one or more of the other faculty members do in this setting.  Sometimes we’ll agree, and sometimes we won’t.  It’ll be interesting to see where we converge and where we differ – we won’t do everything the same way, and people can see that even people with access to the same information, all experts in the same subjects, can still have plenty of differences.

   And when new treatments emerge, when new results change what we might do, this new information can be incorporated into the summary post, revising it to include the new information.  This way people can do “one stop shopping” to get a quick sense of how the faculty members approach a common clinical situation.

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