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The Intelligent Doctors Guide To The Internet
Dr Aniruddha Malpani, MD Medical Director HELP - Health Education Library for People Bombay. India. The major attraction of the web for doctors is that it contains a wealth of medical information which is increasing daily - it's like the world's largest medical library, which is open 24 hours. However, this vastness is its Achilles' heel as well, because the information is not organised logically or systematically. This is hardly surprising, considering the fact that the Web is a free for all jungle - everyone can publish on it ! This means that for every good site, there are likely to be ten bad sites. With so many thousands of medical sites, it's easy to get lost in this maze. This article will serve as a tourist guide, and show you some of the web's highlights, so that when you actually start exploring on your own, you know where to go and how to get there
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