I recently completed an interview for a medical student website, after which I asked them not to use my real name in keeping with how I don’t have my real name on this blog. My reason for the anonymity, as many of you know, is a minor one. I do have another website for my practice which is a pure marketing tool, intended to help patients decide to come see me. I wanted to distance this site that you are currently reading from being a marketing tool. Many more readers come to this site than they do to my regular site. What they want is authentic information and opinions, not a sales pitch to increase my patient volume. Granted it’s a minor thing, as many of my colleagues, patients and those who first visit my main site will know who I am by the time they come HERE.

The interesting thing is after I requested my name be withheld, the author of this interview decided to make up a fake name for me without informing me. So you can call me Dr. Lawrence Terra. i believe they are sending me a whole dossier including passport, fake ID and biographical cover story so I can begin doing undercover assignments for the CIA.

UPDATE: December 1, 2008. I give up on being anonymous on this blog, as people are using google to easily figure out who I am.