looking for popular online discussion areas for physicians to get
advice on cases. maybe sites that cater to small-town doctor (not
necessary). maybe sites that allow uploads of images (not necessary).

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Clarification of Question by heif-ga on 03 Mar 2003 14:32 PST

clarification: i'm looking for sites/communities/boards where doctors
talk to doctors (no patients)

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Request for Question Clarification by easterangel-ga on 03 Mar 2003 16:21 PST

Hi! Should the service be in the US only or since it is in the
internet, websites from other countries would do as well?

Just let me know. :)

Hello again, Heif

{gobble, gobble}  That's me eating my words about there being *lots*
more physician communities out there.  There isn't.  The concern for
patient privacy is such that most of discussion groups are maintained
through secure password-protected listservers.  As a patient, I found
that very comforting and this exercise enlightening.

The Cybear or Physicians Online community that I mentioned previously
seems to be the largest and probably the most active.  Here are
additional ones I found after *much* digging.  Several are for
specialty practices but I've included them in case they may be of use
to you.


American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine
http://www.acponline.org/public/news/index.html

AssociaMed
http://www.associamed.net/public/index.html

The European Union of General Practitioners Mailing Lists
http://www.uemo.org/links/links2.htm

OB-GYN Net
http://www.obgyn.net/english/forums/forums.asp

MD Forum (looks to still be in beta)
http://www.mdforum.com/register.cfm

Medical Crossfire
http://www.medicalcrossfire.com/medical_prof.html

Society of General Internal Medicine
http://www.sgim.org/interestgroup.cfm

American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons
http://www.aaos.org/wordhtml/services.htm

Society of Rural Physicians of Canada
http://www.srpc.ca/ruralmed.html

FDA M.D. SIGs
http://www.fda.com/fdamd/shared_interest_groups.htm

Thanks very much for your interesting question. I would also suggest
contacting the very nice folks at MD Express and DocMD, which are both
physican-founded websites. Hopefully, they will have additional
resource ideas.

http://www.mdexpress.com
http://docmd.com/allaboutdocmd

Two more lists of medical sites:
http://www.medlina.com/general_&_internal_medicine.htm
http://www.parkpub.com/dr-web/dr-web-home.html

I wish there were more physician support communities available, but I
hope you find a group to your liking in the links I've provided.

Best of luck,
V

thank you!

Hello,
One site that may be of interest is Medhelp International
(www.medhelp.org).  Although it is tailored for patients, some of the
Q&A forums are staffed by physicians.  For instance, the neurology and
cardiology forums are staffed by physicians from the Cleveland Clinic
Medical Center.  Note that some of the forums are fee-based ($15-19
per question) and some limit the amount of questions asked per day.

Thanks,
Kevin, M.D.

You might try here:  http://www.cybear.com.  Researchers might try
using "peer-to-peer" "physicians."  There should be lots more out
there.

How about http://www.po.com ?

My pleasure!  Do come back if we can help you further.