G-Med, the world’s first and only global social-professional network exclusively for physicians, allows doctors anywhere to consult with colleagues, manage multinational research projects and offer virtual services to patients.
Launched in Israel last year, G-Med proved so popular that its founder, Hagar Mordoch, took it global at the end of 2013. Today this unique social network has about 20,000 users from more than 50 different countries.
That kind of diversity was just what Dr. Sagi Harnof needed when he recently began planning brain surgery for a patient who is a Jehovah’s Witness. This religion forbids blood transfusions. Harnof, deputy chief of neurosurgery at Israel’s Sheba Medical Center, rarely encounters Jehovah’s Witnesses and so he presented the case via G-Med.
“I got comments from colleagues in North and South America and Europe,” says Harnof, who is one of the site’s two medical advisers. The online guidance helped him strategize the best surgical procedure for the patient’s health and religious beliefs.
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