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Super Searchers on Health & Medicine: The Online Secrets of Top Health & Medical Researchers (Super Searchers series)

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If you want to find medical information you can trust on the web, this is the book for you. Everyone knows the web is a wealth of medical information, but finding what you need, when you need it and knowing whether you can trust what you found can be a hit or miss proposition for most of us. This book gives you the benefit of the experience of people who earn their livings finding medical information. All the searching tricks these people have learned the hard way are captured here and neatly summarized at the end of each chapter as "Power Tips". By following these tips, anyone can do a better job of finding an answer to a specific health questions, and, have more confidence in the quality of the information.

The best part of this book was the Appendix of Internet Resources, and this alone does not warrant the cost of the book. I found much better information on performing health searches, as well as various other industries, in Find it Online: the Complete Guide to Online Research. Detwiler's book had some good information in it, but it was sporadic, and I did not find the interview format useful--on the contrary, many of the questions were irrelevant, or were good questions, but not really answered by the interviewee. This book is not really a useful tool for researchers, as there is too much useless information to wade through in order to glean anything of value; and there are certainly no "secrets", as far as I could see, that could not be found in other, more comprehensive, research guides.

The best part of this book was the Appendix of Internet Resources, and this alone does not warrant the cost of the book. I found much better information on performing health searches, as well as various other industries, in Find it Online: the Complete Guide to Online Research. Detwiler's book had some good information in it, but it was sporadic, and I did not find the interview format useful--on the contrary, many of the questions were irrelevant, or were good questions, but not really answered by the interviewee. This book is not really a useful tool for researchers, as there is too much useless information to wade through in order to glean anything of value; and there are certainly no "secrets", as far as I could see, that could not be found in other, more comprehensive, research guides.