Hernia and Social MediaExperience and lessons learned: Turkey perspective

Hakan Gök

Acibadem Kozyatagi Hospital | Istanbul | Turkey

I have no potential conflict of interest to report

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Turkey

- 78 million population

- 5.000 general surgeon

- 36 million active Facebook users

- The most widely used social media platform in Turkey: Facebook (93%),

Twitter (72%), Google+ (70%) and LinkedIn (33%)

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Unfortunately

No active social media platform for educational purposes on

surgery in Turkey

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Social media purposes

To acquire new patients

Having reputation

Sharing desire for personal success

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How we met?

- Search “hernia” in facebook

- From a friend

- From industry representive

Only 5 surgeons from Turkey in IHC now

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Why I joined?

- Learn new and different perspectives.

- To benefit from personal experience.

- To follow the developments.

- To diversify my knowledge.

- Become familiar with the issues that I am missing.

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What contribution I had?

- I have become a member of herniologist family.

- I'm aware of developments, news, meetings etc...

- Motivated because of development-oriented.

- Benefit from the experience of the surgeons.

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Future aspects?

- Currently excellent

- Accurate and careful sharing

- Digital archive

- Be maintained and developed as a digital platform

- What direction to go should discuss

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