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A number of leading doctors from all over India subscribe to MDConsult. These include authorities such as Dr F E Udwadia ( Internist, Breach Candy Hospital, Bombay); Dr Sharad Shah ( Gastroenterologist, Breach Candy Hospital, Bombay); Dr Sanjiv Malik ( Hon Secretary General, Indian Medical Association, Delhi ); and Dr Duru Shah, Gynecologist, Breach Candy Hospital, Bombay). Most doctors renew their subscription, year after year !
"MDConsult is a one-stop shop for all kinds of medical information for me. It scores over other search sites because you get direct, instant links to full-text articles , not just abstracts (eg. Pubmed). I can even browse journals by opening one window to the TOC ( table of content) sites of my specialty journals and another to MDConsult. The patient education material is a useful archive for handouts. Since these are often large, I download specific items on floppies for patients who request material or send it across by email. The news material - 'Today in Medicine' and 'What patients are reading' are quite informative and I visit them regularly."
- Dr Roop Gursahani, Hon.Associate Professor in Neurology, Grant Medical College and Sir J.J.Hospital . Consultant Neurologist at Lilavati Hospital, Mumbai . "I immensely enjoyed MDConsult.
Whenever I needed to prepare a talk, it was so useful; I don't know how I did
without it so far !Its ability to send an entire article to a friend was an unexpected bonus !"
Dr.Vijay Kulkarni
consultant Andrologist and Microsurgeon, Mumbai "MD Consult represents precisely the type of on-line resource I have hoped for ever since I became acquainted with the Internet. As a generalist (FP) I often run into clinical situations that I see infrequently. Having access to an array of current textbooks extremely helpful for fast review. Then I can search the journals for more current details."
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"I find MD Consult the most helpful change to have taken place in the practice of medicine in the last 20 years. I teach Emergency Medicine in a Residency Program. It is so easy to get reference material to back up a point of instruction with MD Consult. I use it on almost every case."
Bill Bass, Jr. M.D.
"I'm a radiologist. I find the reference search capabilities very useful, giving me access to information from the point of view of clinical specialists. The full text journal retrievals are awesome. If I just had more time...! This service is a time multiplier, allowing clinically useful research in minimum time.
"Thanks for the service. I think it is a bargain."
Steve Diehl MD
"I love MD Consult. I find it better and quicker to use than any other on-line service I've tried... I love having immediate access to articles and textbooks, and going in between on MD Consult. I was about to go out and update my home library, but now I feel this meets most of my needs."
Linda P. Engelstad, M.D.
"Thanks for the wonderful service. I have had more fun keeping up-to-date not only in my field of practice, but also some of my colleagues. I have even been able to "one up" some of the Drug reps as they come by to detail new products and find I am quoting the latest literature to them instead of the other way around. Keep up the nice service."
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"Without MD Consult, I had to wade through stacks of printed materials in our office library, or attempt to cross-reference the many CD-ROMS we purchased. MD Consult offers the best publications in medicine, provides cross-referencing and even rates additional web-based resources for me."
Roger Mitty, MD
If you want to pick just one website, which would answer all your information needs, try out www.mdconsult.com which labels itself as "What Doctors need to know". This site provides access to the ultimate digital online medical library. The full text medical reference books which are the standard authoritative texts and cover all fields of medicine include Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, Cecil Textbook of Medicine, Devit: Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology, Rakel: Conn’s Current Therapy, Rowland : Merritt’s Textbook of Neurology, Ryan: Kistner’s Gynecology: Principles and Practice, Sabiston: Textbook of surgery, Braunwald 's Cardiology and Cambell’s Urology. You can search the entire collection at the same time, then pinpoint the information you need within the so summate text on the subject. The site also provides access to the complete text of all the articles in the famous clinics of North America, the entire series of year Books as well as many leading journals. These include the American Heart Journals, American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Chest, Journal of Pediatrics, Medicine, Neurology, and Pediatrics, so that you are no longer restricted to abstract only. You can also search the MEDLINE database. The section on practice guidelines offers you the complete text of over 600 peer-reviewed clinical practice guidelines contributed by more than 50 medical societies and government agencies. An additional bonus is the ‘Patient Education’ section, which offers you access to any of 2,500 acclaimed patient education handouts. You can add your own comments to customize them for your practice, and then print the handout, complete with your own special instructions, practice name, and contact information! The Drug Information section provides regularly updated prescribing information on over 30,000 medications from an independent drug reference source. While all the brand names are for US drugs, this is very valuable information, which allows you to find the right drug for the right problem. MD consult has been laid out so that it provides answers to clinical queries, and also has a section which allows regular updates. The ‘updates’ section offers many choice. The ‘Today in Medicine’ division allows you to stay informed about the newest development in medicine. It reviews new developments from major journals, government agencies, and medical conferences, and provides you with concise clinical summaries and links to related information. The ‘In this week’s Journals’ allows you to keep up with all the major weekly journals by presenting you with all the major weekly journals by presenting you with the key contents of the big six journals-JAMA,BMJ, lancet, NEJM, Archives of Internal Medicine and Annals of Internet Medicine in an easy-to-scan format, including concise article summaries which help you quickly stay abreast. Clinical Topic Tours offers a new tour each week and lets you explore current thought and accepted wisdom on consequential topics in medicine through a focused collection of information from journal articles, books, drug data, practice guidelines, educational materials and useful Websites. What makes MD consult the best is its impeccable clinical content and its superb structure, so that less than three web pages have to be viewed in order to find an answer to any original query. MDConsult is comprehensive since it covers all areas of medicine, and since it is subscription-based, it is free from advertising and all the irritating and distracting banner ads so common on other sites. You can get a free demo of the power of MDConsult by logging on at www.mdconsult.com
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