.Welcome to sbneph.com, the website of Darol Joseff, MD
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My interests include internal medicine, nephrology/kidney medicine, hypertension, medical database systems, and how health consumers can best evaluate the usefulness and truth of medical information found on the internet. I co-teach a course for Santa Barbara City College Adult Education on this last subject with Nancy Oster and Lucy Thomas. I also enjoy soccer and am a developer of Filemaker database solutions. This page has a number of links. Please read the important disclaimer below regarding the risks of internet information.
**Our book is now available, Making Informed Medical Decisions by Nancy Oster, Lucy Thomas, and Darol Joseff MD, as seen/reviewed on Amazon.com, The New York Times, American Medical News, Ladies Home Journal, and the Library Journal. Written for all of us who may receive news from our physician we would rather not hear, and provides direction in understanding and processing medical information. We're very proud of it, the result of more than two years of research. Our readers give us lots of well-appreciated support, and it's a deal. Please read the reviews. Available at medical libraries, local bookstores and on-line.
This site is always under construction.
Comments about the internet as a source of medical
information.
Avoiding
quacks and misinformation on the internet.
Search Engines:
| NorthernLight | AskJeeves | DogPile | |
| AltaVista | Lycos | WebCrawler | |
| Hotbot | Magellan | Yahoo | |
| Infoseek | MetaCrawler | HealthAtoZ |
Information about
medications:
HouseCall
(http://www.housecall.com)
Gold Standard
Multimedia (http://www.gsm.com)
RxList-The Internet Drug Index (http://www.rxlist.com)
Medline Search:
NCBI PubMed
http://www4.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
MDConsult
(http://www.mdconsult.com) *subscription only, but allows free 10 day trial
use*
HealthGate (http://www.healthgate.com)
Medscape
(http://www.medscape.com)
HealthWorld
(http://www.healthy.net/)
U.S.
National Library of Medicine (NLM) (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/)
Lists -Mailing lists
similar to newsgroups
Liszt
Select (http://www.liszt.com) search for relevant
mailing lists
Various health related web sites:
*
* Nancy Oster's
Internet Health Related Sites (http://www.silcom.com/~noster/wcindex.html)
(Nancy's site has been acclaimed by the Library of Congress as a terrific
site for medical information. This is the primary site for our classes.)
Online Merck
Manual
(http://www.merck.com/!!quLzx2cATquOnv2W4I/pubs/mmanual/)
MedlinePlus (http://medlineplus.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/)
Health Answers -
(http://www.healthanswers.com)
Healthfinder -
(http://www.healthfinder.gov)
MedicineNet -
(http://www.medicinenet.com/)
Agency
for Health Policy and Research (AHCPR)
(http://www.ahcpr.gov)
American Academy of
Family Physicians (http://www.aafp.org)
American Association of Gastrointestinal
Endoscopy (http://www.asge.org)
American Cancer Society
(http://www.cancer.org/)
American
College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine
(http://www.acponline.org/)
American
Heart Association (http://www.americanheart.org/)
American Medical Association (http://www.ama-assn.org)
BioSites
(http://www.library.ucsf.edu/biosites/)
British Medical Journal
(http://www.bmj.com/bmj/)
Hardin Meta Directory of
Internet Health Sources
(http://www.arcade.uiowa.edu/hardin-www/md.html)
HealthWeb
(http://healthweb.org/)
Lancet
(http://www.thelancet.com/)
Mayo Clinic
Proceedings (http://www.mayo.edu)
Medical Matrix
(http://www.medmatrix.org/index.asp)
MedicineNet
(http://www.medicinenet.com)
Medscape
(http://www.medscape.com)
MedWeb: Biomedical Internet
Resources (http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb/)
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly
Report (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/)
National Institutes of Health
(http://www.nih.gov/)
National
Library of Medicine
(http://www.nlm.nih.gov/)
New England
Journal of Medicine (http://www.nejm.org)
OncoLink
(http://www.oncolink.upenn.edu)
ParentsPlace.com
(http://www.parentsplace.com)
Darol Joseff, MD
2428 Castillo Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
805 682 2541, djoseff@sbneph.com
Important note: The internet cannot substitute for care by your medical provider. As the old aphorism says, "The doctor who treats him/herself has a fool for a patient." The same reasoning and more applies to the internet. No information found through this or other sites is warranted, verified, or represented to be true or useful. Yes, I know, it really is the same disclaimer used on "Psychic Friends Network."
updated 10/3/03
Critical Care Nursing - Renal and Electrolytes information from SBCH Nursing Education.
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