Reading Resources

Medical Knowledge Bases

Medical information has never been more available publicly, due to the online revolution.

New medical facilities and treatments immediately receive the exposure online and always sound full of promise. But how do we differentiate between the various sources? What do we "take-home" from learning online? And how to treat this information lateron?

Reading online information about your condition and personally researching about your situation is a key aspect in understanding and coping with your disease or dis-ease.

You may assist your doctors and caregivers with correctly identifying the source and nature of your woes, which can sometimes lead to a faster treatment, but usually this is, most importantly, a key aspect in understanding and evaluating your medical alternatives.

The idea of self-informing as such, is not brought upon to diminish the importance of the doctor's expertise and experience with your case. Your health provider's experience is a very important factor in getting the right treatment, while this case is augmented when you are not well informed a-priori.

Do it right.

We always suggest to begin with consulting with your doctor regarding your condition, and getting the tests you need to better assess the situation.

Following the diagnosis and while learning your personal anamnesis, you should learn about your alternatives and first regard non-experimental, well established treatments that can be professionally done in accredited medical centers.

You should always seek to better understand the bigger picture. Using statistics, second opinions and reading researches online can help you both in breaking the big picture into pieces and rebuilding it.

Webochondriac?

Sometimes, excess preoccupation with a specific health issue can lead to a health anxiety which, usually, negatively affects the person's life. TicketMed specialists urge you to treat yourself right and keep things in proportion.

No matter how the picture may look like at a certain point, there are always good things to hang on to.

Key Online Resources

We have gathered some of the online resources available for your information; Needless to say we only suggest using online resources as preliminary source of information and always consult your physician.

http://www.WebMD.com Top Tier All Around Information Source

http://www.jmir.org/ Journal of Medical Internet Research

http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/ Free Access to Medical Journals Online

http://emedicine.medscape.com/ EMedicine (Medscape Portal)

http://www.healthmash.com/ New Medical Semantic Knowledge Base

http://www.Wikipedia.org The open encyclopedia (proceed with caution)

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