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Surgery

Anatomy and Medical Graphics

Cardiology

History of Medicine

Hospitals

Hospital Management

Infection Control

Instruments & Equipment

Medical & Dental Associations

Medical Computing & Newsgroups

Medical Information Resources

Medical Journals

Medicolegal

Medical Newsgroups

Medical Practice Management Software

Medical Recruiting

Medical Schools

Medical Students

Nephrology

Neurosciences

Oncology

Osteopathy

Pathology

Radiology

Telemedicine

Books

Breast Surgery & Disease

General Surgery

Laparoscopic Surgery

Maxillofacial Surgery

Orthopaedics

Plastic Surgery

Surgical Deparments

Telesurgery & Robotics

Transplantation

Internet sites of Medical interest

Anatomy and Medical Graphics

Visible Human Project is complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the male and female human body. The current phase of the project is collecting transverse CAT, MRI and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers at one millimeter intervals.
Medical Illustrator's Home Page is a virtual exhibit hall customized specifically for the needs of the medical community.

Cardiology

The Virtual Heart
Trip down a coronary artery
The Heart Preview Gallery - This multimedia exploration, courtesy of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute Science Museum, is a fascinating interactive survey of the human heart. At this site you can see a QuickTime movie of human open-heart surgery, hear the sounds of a heart murmur as well as healthy vs. unhealthy heartbeats, and learn lots of information about the cardiovascular system in general.
Heart News from the British Heart Foundation - The bi-monthly gazette is designed for heart patients and their families, offering a blend of pieces about various heart conditions, news of medical developments, with exercise and dietary advice.
Cardiac Surgery Clinical Practice Guideline List - defines the indications for interventions and therapies. Examples: use of red blood cell products, antibiotic prophylaxis, atrial fibrillation therapy, etc.

History of Medicine

OnLine Images from the History of Medicine - access to nearly 60,000 images drawn from the extensive collection of the History of Medicine Division at the US National Library of Medicine.

Hospitals

The Internet Hospital Directory - Looking for Hospital Web Sites, try here.
HospitalWeb is another list of Hospitals on the Web.
The Michigan Electronic Library list of Hospitals including the HCIA-Mercer's 100 Top Hospitals in the USA for 1994 & 1995

Hospital Management

Brady & Associates has helped hospitals of all sizes, missions and ownership types reduce operating costs while maintaining the standard of care and meeting employees' needs since 1983. This web site provides access to productivity and cost reduction information services designed to be of immediate assistance to hospital managers and decision makers.

Infection Control

Complaince Control Center covers nosocomial infection and prevention, specifically by increasing handwashing compliance.

Instruments & Equipment

Baxter International - one of the world's largest manufacturer and marketer of products used in hospitals and other healthcare settings.
Medical EquipNet (tm) is a comprehensive database which facilitates the acquisition and sale of preowned medical equipment and related services as well as excess inventory for virtually any medical specialty.
MedInstrument Network is a virtual mall featuring a small consortium of corporations specializing in medical instrumentation.
Online Medical Sales Network is a marketplace for the sale and purchase of medical equipment.
Westfield Medical Ltd. are a major supplier to the U.K. National Health Service and their range of products are marketed throughout the world to Hospitals and Industrial Medical Device Manufacturers

Medical & Dental Associations

American Dental Association for professional and consumer dental information, including the Journal of the American Dental Association.
American Medical Association - Click here to register and use their web-based medical information resources.
British Medical Association
British Society of Gastroenterology

Medical Computing & Newsgroups

The British Medical Journal " ABC" of Medical Computing
Doctor's Guide to the Internet offers daily medical news and alerts, a medical conference database containing several thousand entries on worldwide meetings and congresses as well as a large directory of medical sites on the web.
Physician's Guide to the Internet is a comprehensive organization of references and Web tools for the on-line physician.
HospitalWeb Discussion List for discussion of hospitals and the Internet. To join the forum, use this link to send an email request and place the word "help" in the subject line. You will receive in a return message information on how to subscribe.
American Medical Informatics Association for details of the Fall Symposium "Internet Medicine" in Washington Sheraton, Washington, D.C., October 26 - 30, 1996

Medical Information Resources

Medical Matrix - extremely detailed service provided by Abbot Labs.
Wellness Interactive Network - Presented by Interactive Services, Inc., The Wellness Interactive Network - features The Health Information Highway, a medically specific search engine accessing the top Medical Gopher Servers, Medical E-Mail User Groups, Medical Databases and thousands of health, fitness, and medical information resources on the Internet. Also available is access to patient-centered Electronic Newsletters and a variety of health Care Topics on Heart Disease, Diabetes, Weight Management & Nutrition, Repspiratory Health, and Women's Health.
Irish Medical Directory - "Ireland's premiere Medical Web site"
Medizin/Pharma online - Swiss Medical Resource Page
Doctor's Guide Directory is continuously being updated with new medical sites.
Health & Medical Informatics Digest is published monthly and concentrates on locating and publishing innovative health and medical websites
Chronic Illnet is an information and organizational linking center for a wide range of chronic illnesses.
Cochrane Collaboration - The Cochrane Collaboration facilitates the creation, review, maintenance and dissemination of high quality overviews of the effects of health care.
F1RSTMARK WWW site includes a catalog of medical & healthcare databases, mailing lists, directories, & CD-ROM products. It also contains the "Medical Business Finder," a search engine for companies in the medical business. By entering one or more keywords, users can find companies in specific healthcare market areas. For example entering "suture," or "wheelchair," or "publisher" will find companies in those businesses. In addition a HOT SEMINAR & TRADE SHOW" section, as well as "NEW PRODUCT" announcements section is an easy way for companies to promote their trade show, eminar, or new product.
Global Health Network - Global health network project.
Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources
Health & Medical Informatics Digest from the University of Wisconsin - Madison Schools of Medicine and Nursing compiled by R. L. Brown, Ph.D.
HealthNet - This is a demonstration project undertaken by Health Information Infrastructure Consulting, Canadian Federal Government partners and members of the global health community to help highlight the potential of existing communications technologies that can be applied toward the development of a health information infrastructure for Canada.
Indiana University Ruth Lilly Medical Library
London And Region Global Network LARG*net - LARG*net Medical Resources
The Mayo Clinic information resource from one of the USA's leading medical clinics.
MedAccess is a healthcare information resource aimed towards individual consumers and employees.
The Medical List - Internet Clinical Medicine Resources
Medical Matrix - Hypertext Internet Clinical Medicine Resources and What's new on the Medical Matrix
Medical Matrix searchable interface to clinical medicine documents at this temporary address. This is the "beta" release of their searchable interface based at Yahoo. Medical Matrix is a logical step towards an intuitive, clinician driven, point of care multimedia database. Their goal is to enable physicians and healthworkers to search archives of comparative images, cases, and procedures and take advantage of a global database of expert consultants. Medical Matrix will permit healthworkers to access a massive amount of current, peer reviewed journals, news, and text to improve patient care.
MedNexus is a broad-based medical and healthcare information resource including online publications, information databases, and service contacts.
MedWeb - Adam's Guide To Medical Resources On The Internet.
Medscape is the new, free Web site for health professionals and interested consumers. Practice-oriented information is peer-reviewed and edited by thought-leaders in AIDS, infectious diseases, urology, and surgery. Highly-structured articles and full-color graphics are supplemented with stored literature searches and annotated links to relevant Internet resources.
MEL - the Michigan Electronic Library has a Health Information Resources section with hundreds of links to health sites.
The Six Senses Review - A Healthcare & Medical Web Site Review Program. Click here to submit a web site for review.
WebDoctor - An internet navigator for primary care physicians.
World Wide Web Virtual Library. - Medicine (Biosciences) Catalogue.
Whole Intemet Catalog - Health and Medicine Catalogue.
US National Library of Medicine (NLM) - A Multimedia/Hypertext Resource of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Medical Journals

Medicolegal

SLED - Legal/Medical page with Medline via Telnet

Medical Newsgroups

List of Medical newsgroups

Medical Practice Management Software

DGL Information Technologies (UK) Ltd. - produces high quality practice management software for DOS and more recently a true 32-bit Windows 95 version of their well known Practice Manager Professional program. A FREE 30-day fully functioning evaluation version for Practice Manager Professional is now available to download form the http://www.dglit.com.
DGL can also be contacted at:-
42 Celtic Court,
Buckingham Ind Park,
Buckingham MK18 1RQ,
Tel +44 1280 824600,
Fax +44 1280 824700
Email DGL Sales
Email DGL Support
Midex Pro - is a well established Windows and Windows 95 private practice management software package from Avebury Computing Ltd. Used in a wide range of specialties by surgeons, physicians, anaesthetists, endoscopists, radiologists, psychiatrists, hospital departments, independent GPs, etc. MidexPro covers billing, reminders, expenses, reports, wordprocessing, document management, patient recall, appointments diary, etc.
Download a 30 day limited full working copy of the software, free of charge, from http://www.avebury.co.uk
Clich here to email Medibase Inc. - for more information on their medical management software which is approved for electronic submission to Medicare in the USA

Medical Recruiting

PracticeLink - The Physician's time-saving guide to actively recruiting hospitals and medical groups.
American Medical Association Classified Advertisements - Click here first to register to use the AMA web-based advertisement & medical information resources.
British Medical Journal Classified Network of job advertisements in the UK & Oversees. Click here first to register.
Medbulletin lists physician practice opportunities in the USA. It is not a recruiting company. Opportunities are posted directly by hospitals and clinics looking for physicians.

Medical Schools

The Internet Medical School Directory - with both alphabetical & geographical listing

Medical Students

Interactive Medical Student Lounge - from the University of Kansas.
The Interactive Patient - This teaching tool, provided by the Marshall University School of Medicine, allows you to play doctor with a virtual patient.
Virtual Hospital - Information on the College of Medicine and University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics as well as multimedia textbooks, teaching files, clinical guidelines and assorted publications.
Virtual Medical Center a large collection of multimedia teaching files, modules, movies & texts

Nephrology

The RenalNet Information Service information distribution center for Nephrologists.

Neurosciences

Neurology Teaching Pages
Neurosurgical Internet Resource from the University of North Carolina
Clinical Neurological Science Grand Rounds at Western Ontario - Case presentations
Clinical Neurological Science Tutorials at Western Ontario - Educational resources in neuro-ophthalmology, neurosurgery, and neurology.

Oncology

EORTC or EORTC
OncoLink - The University of Pennsylvania Cancer Resource.
Medicine On-Line Cancer Treatment Forum - Web based bulletin board and discussion group monitored by facilitators
US National Cancer Institute

Osteopathy

Internet homepage on osteopathic medical education from the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM)

Pathology

Dr. Greenson's Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology Home Page Extravaganza
WebPath:Internet Pathology Laboratory - This electronic laboratory includes a sample of the more than 1500 archived images demonstrating gross and microscopic pathologic findings associated with human disease states that are used exclusively in the medical student pathology course at the University of Utah.

Radiology

RADNET featuring interactive radiology information and services. Includes interactive classroom to learn anatomy or practice radiology skills. Discover exciting new radiology trends on the "Vendors Corner" & visit the cyber space of radiology on "Society Links".

Telemedicine

TeleMed 96 - Plans for the third international Conference on Telemedicine & Telecare are in progress. Proposals for papers, demonstrations or posters should be sent to Telemed@indesols.demon.co.uk

If you know of any other sites of medical interest, please e-mail me at richard@bowyer.org.uk

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Internet sites of Surgical interest

Books

Clich here to email Janet Caldwell at The Oxford Universirty Press for details or for a free demonstration CD-ROM of their superb Oxford Textbook of Surgery on compact disc which was published last year. This spectacular CD-Rom version of the text based Oxford Textbook of Surgery is attractive, easy to use with over 3,000 stunning colour photographs and specially commissioned pieces of artwork available from the text at a touch of a button. Following cross-references in the text is equally simple. This most comprehensive up-to-date text has been thoroughly enhanced by transfering it to this new technology. I recommended it whole-heartedly.

Breast Surgery & Disease

Inflammatory Breast Lesions and their Surgical Management
EduCare Inc - Breast Health and Breast Cancer Network provides answers for patients and professionals
American Cancer Society - Breast Cancer Network
Breast Cancer Information Clearinghouse provides information for breast cancer patients and their families.
Breast Reconstruction after Mastectomy from the American Cancer Society
Breast Cancer Home Page contains information about hotlines, resources, support groups, and mammograms.
BreastNet from the NSW Breast Cancer Institute. For doctors & patients with interest in Breast Cancer and includes research, publications, and links.

General Surgery

Lymphedema - This site provides information about lymphedema; a swelling of arms, legs, or other parts of the body resulting from an impairment of the lymphatic system either through lymph node surgery or present at birth.
Hernia Information - A comprehensive description of the various types of HERNIA and the different techniques of hernia repair surgery available.

Laparoscopic Surgery

The Graphics Visualization & Usability Center, at the Medical College of Georgia - An examination of computer simulations of endoscopic surgery
National Institutes of Health consensus conference statement on gallstones and laparoscopic cholecystectomy
Advances in laparoscopic Surgery
An Unusual Case of Jaundice Following Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy - Laparoscopic surgery reduces the morbidity of common surgical procedures, but it is not free of its own complications. This report looks at an unusual case of jaundice caused by occult cholangiocarcinoma.

Maxillofacial Surgery

Donlon, William - Ostensibly about oral & maxillofacial surgery but the committed surfer will find a directory of wierd WAV files and links to sites for music, humor, San Francisco Bay area, and wine.

Orthopaedics

Plastic Surgery

The Body Space - a plastic surgen site where you can pick the body area you like to improve...
PLink - The plastic surgery link

Surgical Deparments

Indiana University Department of Surgery - Resource for information on residency program; surgical and other health related resources.
Vanderbilt University Department of Surgery
University of Wisconsin Department of Surgery
Ohio State University Department of Surgery
University of Glasgow Department of Surgery (Western Infirmary)

Telesurgery & Robotics

Surgery Simulation-Deformable Models from Georgia Tech
Telemedicine Information Exchange from the Telemedicine Research Center
High Techsplanations, Inc. - a leading developer of physically-based virtual environment software whose primary application area is surgery simulation.
Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery Jumpstation - Extensive list of links to research and conferences involving medical robotics and/or computer assisted surgery.
Surgery Simulation Information Page - This project is concerned with the simulation of the perceived environment which a surgeon encounters when he or she is performing an endoscopic surgery procedure.

Transplantation

Experimental Organ Preservation
TransWeb is an extensive transplantation and organ donation resource.

If you know of any other sites of surgical interest, please e-mail me at richard@bowyer.org.uk

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Last updated: 2 November 2002
Number of visits from 1/7/1995-9/7/1996 was 109406
Number of visits from 18 October 1996 to 11 April 2001 was 1036
Author: Richard C Bowyer.

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Dick Bowyer'sMedicine & Surgery Resource Page

Medicine

Surgery

Internet sites of Medical interest

Anatomy and Medical Graphics

Cardiology

History of Medicine

Hospitals

Hospital Management

Infection Control

Instruments & Equipment

Medical & Dental Associations

Medical Computing & Newsgroups

Medical Information Resources

Medical Journals

Medicolegal

Medical Newsgroups

Medical Practice Management Software

Medical Recruiting

Medical Schools

Medical Students

Nephrology

Neurosciences

Oncology

Osteopathy

Pathology

Radiology

Telemedicine

Internet sites of Surgical interest

Books

Breast Surgery & Disease

General Surgery

Laparoscopic Surgery

Maxillofacial Surgery

Orthopaedics

Plastic Surgery

Surgical Deparments

Telesurgery & Robotics

Transplantation

Dick Bowyer's
Medicine & Surgery Resource Page