Lots of medical info online
Accurate and accessible medical information for patients is available online, the difficulty is navigating the vast repertoire of potentially misleading advice. As with all forms of media, it is necessary to take the information into context and to interpret it with the assistance of your healthcare...
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| Published in | The Lakeside Leader |
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| Format | Newspaper Article |
| Language | English |
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Slave Lake, Alta
Postmedia Network Inc
20.04.2011
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | Accurate and accessible medical information for patients is available online, the difficulty is navigating the vast repertoire of potentially misleading advice. As with all forms of media, it is necessary to take the information into context and to interpret it with the assistance of your healthcare team. While it may be tempting to trust an email forward or Yahoo answers, or even Wikipedia, it's important to gauge the credibility of the source. For sites like wikipedia, you can often click the sources and see the original articles for yourself. Or for those of you that prefer a simpler approach, here are some excellent free sites to get you started. |
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