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Dr. Dial-up   12.15.2004, 1:05 PM

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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 at 01:05 PM | Comments (0)
tags: google , internet , medical , open_access , open_content , pew , research , web