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INTERNET RESOURCES: INFORMATION FOR PATIENTS
We believe that patient education is an essential part of patient care. Our physicians and medical support staff invite your questions about any aspect of the care we provide. To contact our physicians, please click here for their phone number(s) to arrange for a consultation/appointment.
For online information about specific medical problems which may or may not require surgery, you can also visit the following outstanding sites [see Disclaimer] on the Internet that offer searchable electronic libraries:
n AAAnswers—this site provides answers to questions about abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA); what it is, how to find screenings, as well as physicians who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of it.
n Best of the Web—this is a helpful resource for researching surgery on the Internet.
n ENTNet—this is an excellent source of information on the ears, nose, throat, and related structures of the head and neck; it is provided by the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery.
n Health AtoZ—this site is a comprehensive navigation tool for health and medicine where all sites have been manually catalogued by a team of medical professionals.
n Healthfinder—this is a health information gateway provided by the U.S. government.
n Heart and Stroke Encyclopedia—this resource is provided by the American Heart Association.
n InteliHealth—this site provides all kinds of health care information reviewed by physicians at Harvard Medical School.
n MayoClinic.com—this site (formerly known as Mayo Clinic's Health Oasis) is one of the most popular online health care resources, with a wealth of information presented in non-technical language.
n MEDLINEplus—is a very helpful public service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
n Merck Manual of Medical Information—this resource, which uses everyday language to present information about diseases, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment, is based on The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy (commonly referred to as The Merck Manual), the textbook of medicine most widely used by health care professionals in the U.S. and worldwide.
n WebMD Health—this site has established itself as a leader in providing online health information.
n YourSurgery.Com—this site offers an expanding multimedia database of operative procedures designed to educate patients about different kinds of operations.
Should your own research lead you to consider a particular operation, please call us to find out if we perform it here at University Hospital and Medical Center. Click here for the phone number(s) of our specialized surgical services.
