It’s amazing what people will do with blogging these days. The idea of anonymously blogging during your own medical malpractice lawsuit and criticizing the plaintiff’s case to boot seems absurd, but that’s just what happened this week here in Boston.

Dr. Robert Lindeman, a medical school graduate of Yale and Columbia, was on trial in a case that stemmed from the death of a young patient in 2002. During the course of the suit, Lindeman was blogging under the name “Dr Flea,” and his site at times had been linked to The Boston Globe’s medical blog, White Coat Notes. Lindeman not only criticized the plaintiff’s case, but he also insulted the jury and even revealed some of his defense team’s strategy.

Further proof that clever lawyers are paying attention to the Blogosphere these days, one of the attorneys for the family suing Dr. Lindeman unmasked “Dr. Flea” and smartly didn’t reveal the secret until questioning him under oath. Not surprisingly, the case was settled the next day.

This may be the first case of a defendant blogging his own trial. Dr. Lindeman could have been convicted of stupidity, because by now he should have known that in the online community world, transparency is the only verdict.