Your Best Hope for Doing Your Own Research (21 Jun 05)

patient INFORM is a collaborative effort by trusted and experienced patient health organizations, medical societies, health information professionals, and scholarly and medical publishers. The participating voluntary health organizations provide consumers with links to the full text of selected journal articles as soon as they are published, as well as materials created by these groups to help the patient or family member more fully understand the implications of the research. Publishers provide the organizations with online access to their peer-reviewed biomedical journals, immediately upon publication.

This is the web site you've been looking for if you want accurate, up-to-date information about a diagnosed medical condition. It won't help you figure out what you've got from your symptoms.

Will your doctor resent you bringing in new research to discuss? I doubt it. I learn a lot from stuff my patients bring in. Nobody can keep up with all the frontiers in medicine. If you use this site, at least you won't be wasting my time on explanations about lame-brain articles in popular magazines.

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