I think there’s a tradeoff where on one side it seems fair to keep the two identities separate, on the other as a journalist it makes sense that if it takes five minutes for someone to find out Scott’s last name, including it in the article doesn’t sound like a big deal.
The problem is that from the point of view of view of a patient you probably needed more than 5 minutes and Scott’s full name to find out about the blog.
I think there’s a tradeoff where on one side it seems fair to keep the two identities separate, on the other as a journalist it makes sense that if it takes five minutes for someone to find out Scott’s last name, including it in the article doesn’t sound like a big deal.
The problem is that from the point of view of view of a patient you probably needed more than 5 minutes and Scott’s full name to find out about the blog.