Month: February 2000

There are now online archives of the new weekly "membermail" sent out by the AAFP to members. This is a good weekly update on health, policy and information that may be important to family physicians and other primary care providers.

Quackwatch is mentioned in this month's issue of Bandolier. The topic is: Why bogus therapies seem to work.

Family Medicine: Evaluation as a Dynamic Process. This is a nice article for the office-based preceptor. Many physicians are precepting medical students in their offices. Yet these docs often have little training in teaching. This article has some good advice for these docs, and may help make the experience more fruitful for both students and preceptors.

Medtrib: Docs who communicate with their patients do better at diagnosing depression. While this certainly isn't breathtaking news, it reminds us that the key to good patient care involves good communication skills.

emdnetwork.com boasts that "the future of medicine .. begins today." Hmm. Not on their site .. at least not yet! The site has links to two Avantgo "channels" and a bunch of advertising. Not much clinically useful here. Don't bother filling out the registration.

More pediatric news: Anyone with an AvantGo account and a PalmOS device can get the abstracts from the current month of pediatrics.

You can get an electronic table of contents (eTOC) emailed to you monthly from pediatrics even if you are not a subscriber by logging into the avantgo pediatric channel (link fixed 2/15/00)

Patient Care, from Medical Economics, is now online. Full text of many articles is available, as is a healty dose of advertising.

3COM supported a project
at Wake Forest University involving the use of palmpilots by medical students.

RxList.com is supported by advertising, but has some good information on pharmaceuticals for both providers anbd patients.