Internal Medicine
Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician - Hippocrates 460-400 B.C.
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Practice tips for opioid prescribing
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Doximity
Doximity makes your life simpler.
Sermo
Welcome to the only online community where physicians around the nation exchange the latest medical insights with each other and improve patient outcomes - 24/7.
The NNT
The core value of the NNT is its straightforward communication of the science that can help us understand the likelihood that a patient will be helped, harmed, or unaffected by a treatment.
Clinical Care Options
CCO believes the way to optimize clinicians’ competence in providing the highest standards of evidence-based medicine is through effective education and the availability of the latest clinical information, whenever and wherever it is needed. CCO is dedicated to improving patient care by providing superior-quality, relevant educational content and clinical knowledge as delivered through its innovative and integrated online and mobile platforms, which provide comprehensive and personalized information solutions.
ConsultantLive
ConsultantLive pulls together practical clinical advice from top experts in many specialties in a convenient source for primary care practitioners. The journal and Web site provide peer-reviewed articles on key topics encountered in clinical practice, as well as short, quick-reading features that emphasize diagnostic quizzes and color photography.
HCPLive
HCPLive is the preeminent destination for physicians, pharmacists, managed care executives, and other healthcare professionals who are looking for tools, techniques, and information that can help them provide better care.
MedPage Today
MedPage Today is the only medical news service for physicians that links consumer medical news and the professional medical analysis needed by clinicians.
Physician's News Digest
PhysiciansNews.com is a leading online resource of news, information and features for doctors, health professionals and patients. We focus on practice management issues including business, finance, politics and technology in the healthcare industry.
Physician's Weekly
Physician's Weekly is your source for medical news, information on new drugs and devices, clinical updates.
The Doctor's Channel
The Doctor’s Channel offers free video CME, medical news, and physician education. Featuring insights and opinions from experts in over 50 specialties, as well as community and lifestyle features that help doctors stay on top of the latest news, ideas and information.
ACP Hospitalist.
ACP Hospitalist is the resource that hospital-based internists and third-year internal medicine residents read for news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
CasesBlog
CasesBlog contains a rich collection of "presurfed" material for busy clinicians and features interactivity and timely discussion.
Cochrane
Cochrane is for anyone interested in using high-quality information to make health decisions. Whether you are a doctor or nurse, patient or carer, researcher or funder, Cochrane evidence provides a powerful tool to enhance your healthcare knowledge and decision making.
Doctors Lounge
Doctors Lounge is a large online network of doctors, nurses and allied health professionals. Our members have written over 10,000 articles and answered more than 30,000 medical questions.
Future Medicine
Welcome to www.futuremedicine.com - your gateway to objective and authoritative information on medical advances in the post-genomic era, delivering concise, forward-looking perspectives on the scientific, clinical, economic and policy issues that confront us in modern healthcare. Future Medicine is part of the Future Science Group, an expanding group of independent companies active in the field of scientific information and endeavor.
Healio
Healio.com enables you, the health care specialist, to select and tailor news and education to fit your daily practice of medicine.
HealthEconomics.com
Welcome to the HealthEconomics.Com website, for health outcomes research and health economics jobs and resources on the Internet.
Journal Watch
NEJM Journal Watch is used by practicing clinicians - physicians, nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, residents, students, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals - to stay informed and current in their fields.
Martindale's Virtual Medical Center
Comprehensive resource covering the field of medicine.
MDCalc
This is a site for medical professionals to help us do calculations and process algorithms and scores. To make patients better. Faster. You can access the full list through the navigation bars, or, preferably, through the search menu.
MDedge
Keeping you informed. Saving you time.
MDExpress
We recognize that physicians have precious little time to obtain all the information they require. At the same time, a great deal of the information that physicians need - and much, much more - is available on the Internet.
MDLinx
DAILY, our team of physicians and nurses review between 600-1200 articles from journals and serious press, then CATEGORIZES & SORTS these articles into 32 SPECIALTY and 747 SUBSPECIALTY TOPICS to keep you current in your areas of interest.
MEDForum
This is sample of a medical interactive message community that is an open forum run by MEDForum On the Net.
MedHunt
Hon MedHunt promotes the effective and reliable use of the new technologies for telemedicine in healthcare around the world.
MedicineNet
MedicineNet.com is an online, healthcare media publishing company. It provides easy-to-read, in-depth, authoritative medical information for consumers via its robust, user-friendly, interactive web site.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
The MMWR weekly contains data on specific diseases as reported by state and territorial health departments and reports on infectious and chronic diseases, environmental hazards, natural or human-generated disasters, occupational diseases and injuries, and intentional and unintentional injuries. Also included are reports on topics of international interest and notices of events of interest to the public health community.
National Library of Medicine
The Library collects materials in all areas of biomedicine and health care, as well as works on biomedical aspects of technology, the humanities, and the physical, life, and social sciences.
Practical Guide to Clinical Medicine
A comprehensive physical examination and clinical education site for medical students and other health care professionals.
TEDMED
TEDMED celebrates conversations that demonstrate the intersection and connections between all things medical and healthcare related: from personal health to public health, devices to design and Hollywood to the hospital. Together, this encompasses more than twenty percent of our GNP in America while touching everyone's life around the globe.
BestBETs
BestBETs were developed in the Emergency Department of Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK, to provide rapid evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions, using a systematic approach to reviewing the literature.
EB Medicine
At EB Medicine, we prides ourselves on our unparalleled quality and convenience. EB Medicine covers medicine the way you actually practice it -- real patients, real challenges, and real solutions.
Medscape
The fastest, most comprehensive medical app designed for healthcare professionals.
Physician's Briefing
Internal medicine news from HealthDay.
PubMed
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
UpToDate
All of our topics are written exclusively for UpToDate by renowned physicians who are experts in their specialty. Thousands of your colleagues serve as authors, editors and peer reviewers. Our content is evidence-based, comprehensive, and fully referenced, and is subject to an extensive peer review process to ensure that the information and recommendations are accurate and reliable.
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