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Dr. Dial-up 
12.15.2004, 1:05 PM
posted by kim white
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There is a new initiative underway to make biomedical research immediately available on line and free to the public. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 66% of those with internet access have used it to look for health/medical information. That means that over 85 million Americans (and who knows how many people worldwide) went online last year to doctor themselves. Is this a new kind of do-it-yourselfer, the amateur physician, Google-ing a diagnosis and a cure? And when all of this new "information" becomes available, will the office visit--which the HMOs are already putting the squeeze on--become a thing of the past?
Posted by kim white on December 15, 2004 01:05 PM
tags: google, internet, medical, open_access, open_content, pew, research, web
