YouTube Ranks Fauquier ENT as Most Viewed for Medical Videos

I was informed that our practice's YouTube channel has been ranked as one of the most viewed channels related to medicine in the world!

As of Oct 6, 2011, our channel which contains 52 videos has received 198,064,840 views. We currently average over 500,000 views a day!

We far surpass other more "prestigious" medical organizations with a YouTube channel.

Mayo Clinic Channel Channel
4,936,943 views

University of Maryland Medical Center Channel

2,047,260 views

CDC Channel 

4,173,563 views

Massachusetts General Hospital (Harvard) Channel 

33,994 views

Children's Medical Center Channel 

318,688 views

Duke Medical Center Channel 

1,571,694 views

Medical University of South Carolina Channel 

699,002 views

UVA Health System Channel 

29,922 views

Stanford Medical Center Channel 

132,303 views

British Medical Journal Channel 

216,331 views

Penn State Hershey Medical Center Channel 

46,688 views

Scripps Health – San Diego Channel 

212,848 views

The More Popular You Are, The Earlier You Get Flu (2 Weeks to be Exact)

Actual research was done regarding whether popularity predicts flu trends. Dr Fowler at UCSD and Dr. Christakis at Harvard found that "popular" friends on average get flu 2 weeks before everyone else.

The way this friendship paradox works is as follows: If a person is asked to name a friend, that friend is statistically likely to be more popular than the original individual. Such "popular" individuals typically interact with more people increasing the likelihood of their coming into contact with flu and becoming sick from it earlier than those who are not as popular.

This finding kind of reminds of how miners use a canary bird as an early warning system to see if there are toxic levels of carbon monoxide present before it causes harm to humans.

Read a Reuters story on this research here.