Friday, August 26, 2011

MD Consult India: Testimonial from Dr.Subrahmanyam Karuturi, MD


Dr.Subrahmanyam Karuturi, MD, General Physician & Founder, DoctorsHangout.com


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

- Dr. Subrahmanyam Karuturi, MD
General Physician & Founder, DoctorsHangout.com
Web : www.karuturi.org
FB : www.facebook.com/karuturi

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