http://www.cyber-medicine.org - sharing knowledge between medical disciplines!
Kim Solez, M.D.
(note the hyphen!) devoted to enhancing health uses of the Internet
across all areas of medicine. We invite you to go to the site and
react to the information already there by sharing ideas about
innovative approaches using on line resources and the sites you have
found most useful and novel to add to the list. I think there is
something of interest to everyone since we have statistics on every
area of medicine. We would welcome input either sent privately to me
or, if the comments of broad general interest, sent to
MEDWEBMASTERS-L or MMATRIX-L . We look forward to hearing from all
of you and working with you to make this new site the best it can
possibly be and making things better for all of us!
All the best. - Kim
>Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 22:38:19 -0600
>To: Medical Webmaster Discussion Group <MEDWEBM...@LISTSERV.ACOR.ORG>
>From: "Kim Solez, M.D." <Kim....@UAlberta.CA>
>Subject: Re: medical advisory board - sharing knowledge between
>medical disciplines
>Cc: Michel...@UAlberta.CA
>X-Attachments:
>
>Dear Robert:
>
>What Doug is describing is very similar to the resources of NKF
>cyberNephrology http://www.cybernephrology.org except that we have
>physician moderators, but otherwise all the same elements are there.
>I assure you it does work and is translatable outside of the kidney
>and prostate! I was trying to stimulate more direct Canadian
>participation in the process, since I live in Canada, but I predict
>that I will succeed in stimulating an almost exclusively US based
>response. Ah well, I am a US citizen and lived there until 1987 so
>perhaps there is poetic justice in all this!
>
>There is much the medical disciplines can learn from each other
>about on line resources. We are preparing a WWW page on this which
>will be ready tomorrow. Here below is a partial list of individual
>specialty innovations which the rest of us can learn from. The full
>list will be ready on the site tomorrow.
>
>AIDS - Innovative use of text updating indicated in red to add
>interest and currency to a major textbook presented on line.
>http://hopkins-aids.edu/frames/index_booktoc.html
>
>Anesthesia - GasNet, the oldest still functioning medical discussion
>group, on a globally distributed server network. Impressively fast
>connection from wherever you are in the world!
>http://www.gasnet.org/
>
>Cardiology - Innovative multimedia textbook by Topol with an
>excellent interface. http://www.theheart.org/index.cfm?doc_id=255
>
>Dermatology - Leaders in technology for image retrieval databases
>and unique image descriptions for cataloging .
>
>All the best. - Kim
>______________________
>Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 14:39:03 -0500
>From: Robert Hsiung <dr-...@UCHICAGO.EDU>
>Subject: Re: medical advisory board
>
>At 9:35 AM -0500 8/15/00, Doug Bank wrote:
>
>>I receive many questions, both on the list and off. I can answer
>>most, and most of the support type questions can be answered by
>>other patients on the list. The real medical questions are forwarded
>>by me to any of the doctors on the medical advisory board. Now, I
>>have the good fortune of having some of the best doctors in the
>>world for my advisory board (plus some doctors who happened to
>>have been testicular cancer patients). I have these experts available
>>simply because I emailed them aat one point and asked if they would
> >help. Everyone said yes. Maybe I am just lucky...
>
>You might just be lucky, or you may have just been first, which can
>be an advantage. :-)
>
>This is a really interesting idea.
>
>Translation: I wonder if I could do something like that, too. How
>many experts do you have? How active is your list? How many questions
>do you pass on? Can you please describe the logistics in a little
>more detail? For example, do you forward each question to a single
>expert (if so, which one?) or the whole board? Do you forward each
>answer to the whole list or just the person asked the question? Do
>you have any tips to pass on?
>
>Are others running similar services?
>
>Hmm, the only thing is, most of the "real medical" questions that
>come up on my message board now are responded to by other
>participants, which I think is the key to a peer support community.
>It would be a different dynamic if experts were available...
>
>Bob