Got An Illness? Research It!

Doctors are humans, too, and despite their years of medical training and expertise, they can't know everything. CNN's 'Empowered Patient' has an article on how to search online for medical conditions and treatments.

From the article:

1. Use search engines that screen out the garbage for you
2. Find smart bloggers with your disease
3. Invest 30 minutes in the pubmed.gov tutorial
4. Click on information about annual meetings
5. When in doubt about a Web site, click on "about us"

I would also add Google Scholar to that list. It's more user-friendly than PubMed when it comes to digging up primary literature. Also, if you use Wikipedia, make sure you verify the information with the cited source.

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