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A Minerva entry on how doctors should "get the clinical information
they need" stated "the world wide web is chaotic and difficult to
navigate".
This is true if you evaluated the "web" as the source. It would also
be true if you evaluated the "medical library" as the source instead of an
individual book or volume.
Individual Web sites or databases can make for very informative and
easy to navigate sources for clinical information.
Of course I'm biased as the founder of DynaMed at http://www.DynamicMedical.com where we are striving to create the answer
to "where doctors should get clinical information".
DynaMed is a free point-of-care reference with over 2000 diseases
updated daily from current literature review.
Web based clinical information
A Minerva entry on how doctors should "get the clinical information
they need" stated "the world wide web is chaotic and difficult to
navigate".
This is true if you evaluated the "web" as the source. It would also
be true if you evaluated the "medical library" as the source instead of an
individual book or volume.
Individual Web sites or databases can make for very informative and
easy to navigate sources for clinical information.
Of course I'm biased as the founder of DynaMed at
http://www.DynamicMedical.com where we are striving to create the answer
to "where doctors should get clinical information".
DynaMed is a free point-of-care reference with over 2000 diseases
updated daily from current literature review.
Competing interests: No competing interests