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Medicine and the Internet: Reference Guide

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Most medical professionals, according to the blockbuster MEDICINE AND THE INTERNET, connect by dial-up Internet Protocol. . .to e-mail, with Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) or utility uuencoding sending files, images, sounds and spreadsheets along with messages. . .to File Transfer Protocol (FTP), for the Protein Science e-journal. . .to Gopher, for the pioneer Medicine on the Internet and the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. . .to Internet Relay Chat (IRC) clinical sessions and teamworked documents. . .to Listserv and alt. or sci.med Usenet newsgroup case collaborations, clinical sessions, and cooperative studies. . .to Telnet, for Medline and UNCOVER journal article bibliographic searches. . .and to the World Wide Web, for axial or coronal or sagittal Visible Human image database cross sections, the British Medical Journal, Galaxy-Medicine new developments, the National Library of Medicine's HyperDOC, the New England Journal of Medicine, WebCrawler, Worm, and the Yahoo Medical Index. As a newbie net doctor, it probably helps the most to access the List Global command for Internet resource directories and search engines, such as Bitnet/Internet health sciences resources, Directory of scholarly electronic conferences, Health sciences resources on the Internet, the pioneer Internic information services, and MedWeb e-journal listings. And to find colleagues by Finger; Netfind; the Postmaster of the institution where the medical professional works; Usenet soc.net-people; the web searching Four11 Directory, LookUp, Phone Directory, and White Pages on the Internet; Who.is; or X500. After all, says Generation D expert Dr Luis G Pareras, doctors need to be digitally ready as well as medically savvy for a brave new medicine of virtual surgery, surgical simulation, and videoconferences.