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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (37617)	11/27/1998 11:00:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Skeet, I do most of my medical research using National Library of Medicine search engine PubMed, they also have Internet Grateful Med, both available at the same url: nlm.nih.gov This used to be quite expensive, but now is free. This searches medical journals, which is better for detailed research than medical books, but will give at best, a rather extensive abstract of newer journals. Older journals don't have abstracts included for the most part, and the abstract is no substitute for the article. To get the article, some medical journals can be searched online, e.g., the American Medical Association's JAMA, the American Heart Association, but many more are subscription only, and quite expensive. Since I live in Washington metro area, I have available a number of good medical libraries, and I just drive in, and make my own copies, since I like to browse. On the other hand, the National Library of Medicine has a service called Lonesome Doc, they will refer you to a medical library that will photocopy articles and fax or mail them, this is not free, but very helpful, I am told. I used to subscribe to Grateful Med, and they had a monthly publication that included testimonials from health care providers all over the world who had diagnosed obscure ailments and cured them using Grateful Med. Many libraries have medical books on-line, I am not using the computer in my room so I can't give you the URL but the National Institute of Health has a site which breaks down medicine by topic and individual libraries all over the world maintain extensive sites with much information for free. Lexis/Nexis and Westlaw are not cheap at all, very expensive, but very much worth it. When I am working on a brief, I frequently use Westlaw at very odd hours, say 3:00 a.m. or 7:00 a.m., when medical libraries are closed, also, there is simply no substitute for Boolean searches when you need to find something in a hurry. These services are tax-deductible, as ordinary and necessary business expenses, and I also pass the costs on to the client. CobaltBlue