Summary: There is little doubt that the Mayo team and their guest essayists
have compiled an invaluable book about social media in healthcare.

From the 100-year-old, opening quote of the Foreward, the mission of this book is perfectly clear, “As we grow in learning, we more justly appreciate our dependence upon each other. The sum-total of medical knowledge is now so great and wide-spreading that it would be futile for one man to attempt to acquire, or for any one man to assume that he has, even a good working knowledge of any large part of the world…” If you accept the premise (and I see no justifiable reason not to), the question to be answered is how best to ensure that social learning becomes the norm in medicine. This question is more easily asked than answered…thus the 100-year-old quote is as relevant today as it was…