By Evan Falchuk

Doctors and patients complain all the time about how badly our health care system works.  It shouldn’t be a surprise — neither doctors or patients designed it.  But the internet, and especially blogs, have changed things.  Once the little guy couldn’t possibly have a meaningful seat at the table in making policy, today bloggers are among the most influential political forces in America.

Doctors are the emerging political force on the web.  Their blogs tell the stories of what it’s really like to practice medicine, and often give the most insightful prescriptions on how to make things better.

But the best doctor-bloggers aren’t political.  They simply describe the world as it really is, from inside their offices, to the hallways of their hospitals, to their real-life experiences with patients.  Like the best doctors, they aren’t afraid to just call it like it is, and do it with a sense of humor.

Doctors have a chance to transform health care in a way no other group can — and doctor-bloggers are in the vanguard.