This is just a short little letter I found published in The Lancet. Apparently, the Taiwan Society of Emergency Medicine has been wrangling with the Department of Health regarding appropriate solutions to the national problem of ED overcrowding. To make their short story even shorter, apparently, they ended up forming a group on Facebook, and then posting their concerns to the Minister of Health’s Facebook page. This then prompted the Minister of Health to make surprise visits to several EDs, and, in some manner, the Taiwanese feel their social networking has led to a fortuitous response to their public dialogue.
So, slowly but surely, I’m sure all these little blogs will save the world, too.
“Facebook use leads to health-care reform in Taiwan.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21684378