|
Association for
|
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|
Table 1. diseases by species covered by CONSULTANT (12) |
|
|
AVIAN |
278 |
|
BOVINE |
1141 |
|
CANINE |
1353 |
|
EQUINE |
1103 |
|
FELINE |
924 |
|
CAPRINE |
611 |
|
OVINE |
750 |
|
PORCINE |
599 |
|
------ |
|
|
Total |
6759 |
References
1. Peltzer, N.L.; Leysen, J.M.: Use of information resources by veterinary practitioners. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 79(1):10-16; 1991.
2. Davies, N.E.; DeVierno, A.A.: Reimbursement for computer-assisted literature searches for patient care (letter). NEJ Med. 319(15): 1021; 1988.
3.Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group;Evidence-based medicine: a new approach to teaching the practice of medicine. JAMA. 268(17) : 2420-2425; Nov. 4, 1992.
4. Peltzer, N.L. op. cit., 14.
5.Bawden D.; Valleley, C.:Veterinary information: sources and use. Aslib Proceedings. vol.48, no. 11/12: 266-270; November/December 1996.
6.Peltzer, N.L. op.cit., 15.
7.Wyatt, J.: Information for clinicians: use and sources of medical knowledge. Lancet. 338: 1368-1373; Nov. 30, 1991.
8. White, M.E.: What Information Explosion. Can Vet J. vol.30: 626-628; August 1989.
9. White, M.E. Personal communication: July 1997.
10.Bawden, D.; op. cit., 269.
11. Peltzer, N.L.; op.cit., 14, 15.
12.White, M.E. Personal communication: June 1997.
*Note on other database services available: ISI/NOAH
World Veterinary Index provides access to 85 veterinary journals,
covering the past 5 years. Articles have abstracts, and can be
ordered while online. It is supported in part by Mallinckrodt
Veterinary, Inc. The price is $150/year. For more information,
call the AVMA at 800-248-2862, ext. 297; or see the AVMA
web site. Another current awareness product derived from the
same database company (ISI) is called Focus On: Veterinary Science
& Medicine, which covers 162 journals. For more information
contact ISI at 800-336-4474 ext. 1483; or see the ISI
web site. The price is $260/year. For a complete list of
database services for practitioners, see the UC Davis Carlson
Health Sciences Library list.
PRODUCT AVAILABILITY/REVIEWS/COMPARISONS
MedPRO:
Bibliography Software for Medical Literature
From:
: "Ken Boschert, DVM" <KEN@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>
http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/info/medpro10.zip
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/info/medpro10.zip
MedPRO is a
program designed for anyone who wishes to make sense of the
growing body of medical literature. As a medical reference
organizer, MedPRO will import Medline, MEDLARS, and Physicians'
Online searches from email and the Internet into an easy to use
format. MedPRO will then organize, annotate, and create
bibliographies in numerous styles from the collected literature.
MedPRO is similar to other reference programs (EndNote, Reference
Manager, and ProCite), however it costs much less and is supported
by a friendly staff.
Special requirements: None.
Shareware.
Uploaded by the author.
Medical
Microbiology and Immunology
From:
jrenfro@seas.upenn.edu
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00430/index.htm
This electronic version of the print
journal of the same name is published on the web by
Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. It publishes articles on all
aspects of the interrelationship between infectious agents and
their hosts. Major topics covered by the journal are aspects of
microbial and viral pathogenesis and the immunological host
response to infections; contributions from other fields of
microbiology, including mycology and parasitology, will also be
considered. The journal guarantees a rapid reviewing process, so
that high-quality papers can be published quickly.
Articles
are published in Adobe Acrobat portable document format and are
available to subscribers using a password provided by the
publisher. No password is required to view the article abstracts,
which are published in html format.
Subscription
Information
-North America: Recommended annual subscription
rate: Approx. US $ 670.00
(single issue price: approx. US $
198.00) including carriage charges. Subscriptions are entered with
prepayment only. -All other countries: Recommended annual
subscription rate: DM 925.00 plus carriage charges (Germany: DM
11.20 incl. VAT; other countries: DM 17.40). SAL or airmail
charges are available upon request.
ISSN 1432-1831
(electronic version)
Editors-in-Chief: S. Bhakdi, B.
Fleischer, R. Rott Email: helpdesk@link.springer.de
October
27th Update of the DVM Newsmagazine Web Site is Now
Available
From: "Lynne
Brakeman" <lbrakeman@advanstar.com>
Visit
our breaking news section at:
http://www.dvmnewsmagazine.com/1027news.html
Our new
products page and meetings calendar have also been updated. Please
stop by and let us know what you think of our site.
Sincerely,
Lynne Brakeman
Web Editor
DVM
Newsmagazine
E-mail: lbrakeman@advanstar.com
Hog
Outlook
From:
newjour@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
http://www.mannlib.cornell.edu/reports/erssor/livestock/ldp-hbb/
HOG OUTLOOK, a supplement to the Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Monthly report, is published five times a year by the Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC.
Hog Outlook includes Detailed analysis
and data on the hog sector, focusing on current production,
slaughter, price, and trade statistics.
In 1997, ERS is
expanding its publication LIVESTOCK, DAIRY, AND POULTRY MONTHLY to
include the information formerly contained in Hog Outlook. Hog
Outlook report will be discontinued in 1997. The final Hog Outlook
issue was published October 15, 1996.
Sample Contents:
For email subscription see information at:
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/reports/REPORTS_EMAIL_DISTRIBUTION
Poultry
Outlook
From:
newjour@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
http://www.mannlib.cornell.edu/reports/erssor/livestock/ldp-pbb/
POULTRY OUTLOOK, a supplement to the
Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Monthly report, is published five
times a year by the Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC. Poultry Outlook
provides detailed analysis and data covering the poultry sector,
focusing on current production, price, and trade statistics.
In
1997, ERS is expanding its publication LIVESTOCK, DAIRY, AND
POULTRY MONTHLY to include the information formerly contained in
Cattle and Sheep Outlook. Poultry Outlook report will be
discontinued in 1997.
The final Poultry Outlook issue was
published November 18, 1996.
Sample Contents:
* Growth in Poultry Sector Expected
* Broiler Price Pattern Changing
* State Production Growth Varies Widely * Broiler Exports Continue Strong
* Other Chicken Shipments Climb
* Turkey Prices To Increase Slowly
For email subscription information see:
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/reports/REPORTS_EMAIL_DISTRIBUTION
WELLPET
Server Changed
From: "Katrina
Ritchie" <katr@earthlink.net>
WELLPET
on MAJORDOMO@LISTSERVICE.NET - Holistic/Natural Pet Care
Discussion
WELLPET is an unmoderated list, specifically
for the discussion of Holistic or Natural Pet care and is open to
all those with a sincere interest in alternative methods of animal
care. Topics could include the use and application natural diets
and nutrition, homeopathic remedies, the use of vitamin and food
supplements, herbal medicine, flower remedies, massage therapies
and accupuncture. Anti Holistic posts are not welcome
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owner-wellpet@ListService.net
Visit
the Marketing Communications Resource Library
From:
Bill McCue <bmccue@vt.edu>
On
August 1, 1997, The Veterinary Communications Cooperative was
awarded a development grant from Nutramax Laboratories to design
and begin construction of an innovative web site: a
veterinarians-only marketing communications resource library.
We're pleased now to share the recently completed Phase One as
well as ongoing/future plans.
YOU'RE INVITED
The
Marketing Communications Resource Library is located on the
Internet at http://www.VetComm.com.
When you first arrive at our web site, you'll be able to take a
brief "introductory tour" (INTRO plus six screens) and
we'll explain the purpose of the site and the Veterinary
Communications Cooperative (VetComm). Then you'll have the
opportunity to visit the "members only" Construction
Zone. A password-protected "firewall " has been
activated. Please use the temporary "sneak peek"
password: VCC1024.
Here's some of what you'll find:
1.
The latest findings of the AAVMC-approved Practice Management
Curriculum Survey of veterinary colleges/schools. Specifically:
How many total classroom hours of practice management are offered?
How many of those classroom hours are DEVOTED to marketing?
2.
A comprehensive overview (draft) of vet-to-client newsletters as a
tool to inform, motivate and educate pet owners. This is just a
starting point.
3. Introduction to Marketing Veterinary
Services in the New Millennium, a preliminary, yet comprehensive,
draft of the first of 16 modules to be included on a CD-ROM course
which will be made available at no charge to students of
veterinary medicine and faculty teaching marketing-related
curriculum.
A task force representing all segments of the
veterinary profession is being established to review the form and
content of the library over the course of the next TWO years.
There are several manufacturers who are anxious to support
development of this online library by sponsoring your
participation. Nutramax, for example, is sponsoring a faculty
representative from each of the 27 colleges/schools of veterinary
medicine to ensure that the library meets the needs of each
institution.
If, after you take the tour (VetComm.com),
your organization would like to have representation on the
Resource Library Task Force, please let me know by submitting your
online registration and selecting the "Fellowship"
option. I'll make the necessary arrangements with a sponsoring
vendor.
One last request: please pass the word. And feel
free to share the temporary "sneak peek" password
(VCC1024) with any veterinarian interested in promoting
informatics, distance learning and/or better communication between
veterinarians and pet owners.
Veterinary Communications
Cooperative
Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center
2000
Kraft Drive, Suite 1010
Blacksburg, VA 24060
E-mail:
bmccue@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-2234
Fax: 540-231-2235
Leading
the Pack
From: Edupage
<educom@educom.unc.edu>, 4
September 1997
BRITAIN LEADS THE PACK IN COMPUTER LITERACY
According to the 1997 European Computer Literacy Report, Great
Britain has the highest computer-to-student ratio in the world,
and fully a third of British households now contain a computer,
higher even than their estimation of 28% of U.S. PC households.
Home usage in the U.K. is soaring, up 45% in less than two years,
and every primary school in the country has at least one computer.
About 20% of British households have Internet access and the same
proportion owns two computers. "For the second year running,
Britain is ahead of the world in terms of computer use which means
an increasingly computer literate population," says one of
the report's researchers. "Britain's primary and secondary
school pupils have greater access to IT than those in other
European countries, the U.S., Canada and Japan." Britain has
spent more than a billion pounds on information technology in
schools since 1979. (ZD-Net 3 Sep 97)
America
Online to Operate CompuServe
From:
Edupage <educom@educom.unc.edu>,
9 September 1997
America Online has negotiated a complex
deal with WorldCom that will result in AOL acquiring and operating
CompuServe. AOL intends to keep CompuServe's content focused on
business and technology issues: "AOL is going to use its
scale and its resources to make it more focused and efficient in
servicing the business and professional market," says a
source close to the negotiation. The arrangement calls for
WorldCom to purchase CompuServe as part of a $1.2 billion stock
swap, then to turn it over to America Online, along with $175
million in cash, in exchange for AOL's ANS network service. The
deal will give AOL some much needed cash, and a boost of about 30%
in subscribership. WorldCom will get to keep CompuServe's global
data network, which, in combination with the ANS network, will
beef up WorldCom's data networking capabilities. (Miami Herald 8
Sep 97)
Information
Technology is Nation's Largest Industry
From:
Edupage <educom@educom.unc.edu>,
18 November 1997
A study based on Commerce Department data
and sponsored by the American Electronics Association (AEA) and
the Nasdaq stock market says that the field of information
technology (including both computing and telecommunications) is
now the nation's largest industry, ahead of construction, food
products, and automobile manufacturing. And the AEA's president
took the occasion of the study's release to urge lawmakers to
learn more about technology: "Whether we like it or not,
high-technology issues are going to be front and center in
Washington and in state capitals during the next few years. At the
state and national level, policy makers have a lot of positive
impressions about the high-technology industry, but often very
little knowledge of it. The biggest public policy threat to the
high-technology field is the ignorance of technology and of how
these industries work." (New York Times 18 Nov 97)
Amusing
Internet Statistics
From:
Edupage <educom@educom.unc.edu>,
14 September 1997
THE PROLIFERATION OF ISPs AND OTHER
AMUSING STATISTICS According to Boardwatch magazine, the number of
Internet service providers in the U.S. and Canada has mushroomed
from 1,447 in February 1996 to 4,133 in August 1997. Presumably,
all those ISPs are staying busy handling the 2.7 trillion e-mail
messages that will be sent this year, with e-mail numbers
projected to rise to 6.9 trillion in 2000. None of this
connectivity comes cheap: end users spent $19 billion on Internet
and intranet products last year, roughly $1,000 for each of the 20
million individuals who consider the Internet "indispensible."
(Internet Index #19, 10 Sep 97)
Virtual
Hospital
From: Edupage
<educom@educom.unc.edu>, 21
August 1997
Sabratek Corp. has developed a MediVIEW system
that can monitor patients and adjust dosages in medication drip
devices, all from a remote location. "I will give you a
scenario," says Sabratek's president. "At two in the
morning, a patient on a pain-management drug makes a call, tells a
nurse that he's feeling pain and says the medicine doesn't seem to
be working. The nurse calls the doctor, who increases the dosage.
In the old system, the nurse would need to get up at 2 a.m. and
drive to the patient's home to reset the device. This may cost $75
to $100 per trip. Using MediVIEW, you can connect that device to a
computer through a regular phone line and change the dosage from
your own bedside. And a doctor can download data to see what's
going on with the patient." To enhance its capabilities,
Sabratek recently invested in a computer system called Medically
Oriented Operating Network (MOON) that enables continuous online,
real-time monitoring, charting, recording and reporting of
clinical patient information from any location. "Combining
smart monitoring and infusion devices with the MOON system, we can
create a virtual hospital at someone's home." (Investor's
Business Daily 21 Aug 97)
VETINFO
Mailing List to be Moderated
From:
"Ken Boschert, DVM" <KEN@WUDCM.WUSTL.EDU>
Forthwith,
the VETINFO (aka AVI-L) mailing list will be moderated. In other
words, I will personally approve all messages prior to their being
sent to the list for general distribution. I do this because it is
a small list, but big enough for people who don't understand the
reason for its existence to keep going off-topic, sending replies
back to the mailing list, etc.
I value all of your time &
I'm sure that you can appreciate I value my own as well. I don't
like nor intend to censor anyone, but I will definitely deflect
any message that has no good reason for being distributed. What
that does mean is that your messages will not be immediately
distributed; rather they will have to wait until I get around to
approving them. That should not be a problem since the message
volume has traditionally been low and the topics are not
critically time-sensitive.
If this policy change offends
anyone, you are welcome to leave the list. Again, I won't be
censoring anyone's words, only determining whether the message is
suitable for distribution to the group. I do this reluctantly, but
feel it is the only way to maintain any semblance of quality
control and do not wish others to leave the list because of the
relative minority of those who do not or cannot figure it out.
Ken Boschert, DVM EMail: ken@wudcm.wustl.edu
Washington
University NOAH: netvet@compuserve.com
Div.
of Comparative Medicine URL: http://netvet.wustl.edu/
Box 8061, 660 S. Euclid Ave. Phone:
314-362-3700 =\/= St. Louis, MO 63110
Fax: 314-362-6480
MEETINGS AND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
See the informatics section of NetVet for a more complete and current list of informatics-related activities at <http://netvet.wustl.edu/info.htm>
Posters
for 1998 Richard Talbot Veterinary Informatics Symposium
From:
":Duane Steward, DVM, MSIE" <duane@mit.edu>
1998 AVI, AVMA Convention
Richard Talbot Veterinary Informatics Symposium
"Improving
Patient Care with Informatics"
***** Call for Posters Extended *****
The program of speakers for the 1998
Talbot Symposium, to be held July 25-27th in Baltimore, Md at the
AVMA Annual Convention, is complete. You can view the scheduled
program now at http://hahn.lcs.mit.edu/98talbot/schedule.htm.
The AVI Education Committee thinks both practicing and academic
veterinarians will find the speakers of interest for improving
veterinary care in theory and in practice. In an effort to include
late developments in the rapidly evolving technologies of
informatics, we have extended the Call for Posters.
Poster
abstracts for the '98 Talbot Symposium can be submitted at:
http://hahn.lcs.mit.edu/98talbot/callfp.htm
Posters will be displayed throughout the
symposium with designated breaks for authors to be present for
questions. Accepted Poster Presenters will receive complimentary
AVMA convention registration and will not be subject to any badge
fee.
Submissions are invited from both inside and outside
the veterinary profession where information technologies have been
shown effective in solving real problems for veterinary
practitioners or bringing clarity to veterinary decision making
regarding their patients as a result of systematic approach.
Presentations will be chosen competitively with preferences to
those aligned with the symposium's theme and with information the
practitioner can take back immediately to practice.
Submission Details
All posters will be selected by a critical
review. All submissions to the Call for Posters will be reviewed
by the Association for Veterinary Informatics Education Committee
and appointees of the Committee Chair. The committee is interested
in submission of abstracts for posters which demonstrate the role
and principles of disciplined information processing technologies
in veterinary medicine. The committee is particularly interested
in technologies which solve defined problems or indicate the
optimal decision in an otherwise equivocal clinical context. The
abstract should clearly define the problem to be solved or the
options and considerations in the decision faced. The systematic
approach to the solution or decision recommendation should be also
be clearly described for the intended veterinary practitioner
audience. The poster presentation should fulfill the ambition of
the educational committee as stated above.
Abstracts (200
word limit) may be submitted electronically (preferred) or in
writing. The deadline for submission of poster abstracts is
currently February 1998, specific date yet to be determined. Send
submissions or questions for the program committee to
duane@mit.edu
or to NE43-415, Technology Square, Cambridge, Mass, 02174.
Submissions can be made online at the following URL:
http://hahn.lcs.mit.edu/98talbot/callfp.htm
Committee
Members: Lindsey Puryear, Robin M. Starr, Craig Carter, Chuck
Cohen,
Cheryl Dhein, Allen W. Hahn, Harmon Rogers, Ronald D.
Smith, Duane Steward (Chair)
The
Journal of Medical Education Technologies- Call for Papers
From:
"Lawrence Sherman" <ls@cogentlink.com>
I
have a request that I hope some of you can help me with. I am the
Editor of The Journal of Medical Education Technologies and
thought that this group may contain potential authors, or know of
colleagues that might be able to submit articles for the Journal.
Now that I have just put my first issue to bed (it will be
out within the next few weeks), I am looking for more quality
papers for upcoming issues. What we are looking for are articles
that discuss the use of computer-based learning and other new
technologies (i.e., CD-ROM and the Internet) in all aspects of
health care education. These can be original studies or papers
that describe a singe program or activity. Furthermore, we would
like to see papers that come from a variety of sources, from
academia, industry, and commercial companies.
There may
also be opportunities to present the information discussed in
articles at one of several meeting held throughout the year by the
Society for Applied Learning Technologies, the publisher of the
Journal.
Please feel free to respond to me via email or
telephone at 516-843-9070 should you have any specific
questions.
Lawrence Sherman
Vice President, New Business
Development Strategic Implications International
Editor,
Journal of Medical Education Technologies
Distance
Learning in Public Health
From:
"Susan Foster" <susan.foster@lshtm.ac.uk>
The
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, through the
External Programme of the University of London, will offer two new
distance-based MSc courses and Postgraduate Diplomas in Health
Systems Management and Infectious Diseases, from September 1998.
All course materials and books will be provided to
students around the world, and residency in London will not be
required. For further information and an application form, please
write to:
First Enquiries,
University of London,
Senate
House, London WC1E 7HU
Tel: +44-171-636-8000 Ext. 3150, or
visit the website at: http://www.lon.ac.uk/external
Susan
Foster
London School of Hygiene & T. M.
Pittsburgh
Medical Informatics Training Program
From:
"Joseph Cummings" <jcumm@cbmi.upmc.edu>
The
Center for Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh
expects to have openings for funded predoctoral and postdoctoral
informatics traineeships beginning in the summer of 1998. The
Pittsburgh Training Program has a core and affiliated faculty
numbering over 60, with expertise in:
*Decision support and medical artificial intelligence
*Computer-based medical records
*Computational biology
*Clinical multimedia, telemedicine, and medical applications of the Internet
*Education, information, and cognition
*Health services research and information system evaluation
*Data mining and knowledge discovery
*Medical imaging
*Dental informatics (in collaboration with Temple University)
Trainees may
enroll for masters or doctoral degrees in the Intelligent Systems
Program, the School of Information Sciences, the School of Public
Health, or other degree-granting programs as directed by their
individual interests. Research fellowship training experiences
that do not lead to academic degrees may also be arranged.
Applications are welcome from both health professionals who seek
to further their knowledge of information technology, and
non-health professionals with backgrounds in technical fields who
wish to further develop these skills and apply them to problems in
health care.
The training program is part of the Center
for Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh and the
UPMC Health System. The program's office space is located in the
new Forbes Tower building adjacent to the central hospital complex
of the UPMC Health System and the complete academic resources of
the University's campus.
The target date for receiving
applications is February 1, 1998. Interested individuals are
invited to visit the program's web site at
http://www.cbmi.upmc.edu,
send e-mail to training@cbmi.upmc.edu,
or call (412) 647-7113 for further information.
The
program Director, Charles Friedman, and Co-directors, Gregory
Cooper and Titus Schleyer -- as well as many faculty members and
current trainees -- will be attending the AMIA Fall Symposium
(Nashville, TN, October 25-29) and would be interested in meeting
with prospective applicants at the Career Expo '97 (Booth Number
1110).
Winter Web Workshops
Now Open
From: "Thomas P.
Copley" <tcopley@GIGANTOR.ARLINGTON.COM>
Workshops
on the World Wide Web (WWW) for the beginner and slightly more
advanced user will be conducted monthly this winter by Arlington
Courseware. Several sessions of each workshop are now open. Both
are eight week distance-learning workshops conducted entirely by
HTML mail.*
MAKE THE LINK WORKSHOP: WORLD WIDE WEB FOR EVERYONE
This workshop focuses on how to gain
maximum advantage from the Web. It covers how to gain access to
the WWW, linking to and interpreting URLs, distinguishing between
different browsers, navigating and searching, organizing your
bookmarks, designing your own home page with HTML and installing
it on a server, utilizing principles of good Web design, and
choosing between and using HTML editors.
The cost is $20.
For further information, see the Make the Link Workshop home page:
http://www.bearfountain.com/arlington/links.html
TUNE IN THE NET: GLOBAL REACH FOR THE 21st CENTURY
This is the sequel to Make the Link, but
may be taken independently by the more experienced beginner or
intermediate user. It concentrates on Internet interactivity and
assisting the more experienced user in making his or her Web pages
into a standout interactive site. It covers prototyping Web pages
with page generators and site builders, making HTML forms, using
client-side image maps, customizing pages with frames and HTML
3.2, making content interactive with layers, dynamic HTML,
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), scripting with JavaScript, and
utilizing push media, such as Netscape Netcaster and Microsoft
Active Channels.
The cost is $40. For additional
information, see the Tune In the Net Workshop home page:
http://www.bearfountain.com/arlington/tune.html
The cost of both workshops taken together
is $55.
HOW TO SIGN UP
Three Make the Link Workshops
are scheduled for this winter:
December Session December 1
- January 23
(Open enrollment period until 12/12)
January
Session January 5 - February 27
February Session February 2 -
March 27
Three Tune In the Net Workshops are also
scheduled:
Session VII (December) December 1 - January
23
(Open enrollment period until 12/12)
January Session
January 5 - February 27
February Session February 2 - March
27
Sign up for ONE session of each workshop only unless you
plan to take it more than once. To sign up, please send an e-mail
message to the address:
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and in the body of the message, include
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more information about each workshop, and you will receive an
acknowledgment with the particulars about signing up, and
unsubscribing, should you decide not to participate.
If you
have any difficulty with this procedure or fail to receive a
response, please send e-mail to the address in the signature
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* A plain ASCII text version is also available.
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In the Net Workshop www.bearfountain.com/arlington/
Two
New Books on Medical Informatics from AMIA
Two
new books on Medical Informatics have just been published this
Fall. AMIA members Mark Musen and Jan van Bemmel have edited
"Handbook Medical Informatics," published by
Springer-Verlag. AMIA member Enrico Coiera has authored "Guide
to Medical Informatics, The Internet, and Telemedicine," just
published by Chapman & Hall. Both books have associated Web
sites: for the Musen & van Bemmel book, see
www.mihandbook.stanford.edu or http://www.mieur.nl/mihandbook;
for the Coiera book, see http://www.coiera.com
Review
of Practice Management Software by AAHA
The
American Animal Hospital Association just published a review of
practice management software in July of this year. The publication
is available from AAHA for $10. You can contact AAHA on the web or
by email at: AAHAPR@aol.com
The
Internet Workbook for Health Professionals.
Hutchinson / New Wind Publishing, 1997, $19.95.
The
"Good 'Ol Days
In my
day, we didn't have no rocks. We had to go down to the creek and
wash our clothes by beating them with our heads.
(Barry
Blyveis, Columbia)
In my day, we didn't have dogs or cats.
All I had was Silver Beauty, my beloved paper clip.
(Jennifer
Hart, Arlington)
When I was your age, we didn't have fake
doggie-do. We only had real doggie-do, and no one thought it was a
#*&% bit funny.
(Brendan Bassett, Columbia)
In my
day, we didn't have fancy health-food restaurants. Every day we
ate lots of easily recognizable animal parts, along with potatoes
drenched in melted fat from those animals. And we're all as strong
as AAGGKK-GAAK Urrgh. Thud.
(Tom Witte, Gaithersburg)
In
my day, we didn't have hand-held calculators. We had to do
addition on our fingers. To subtract, we had to have some fingers
amputated.
(Jon Patrick Smith, Washington)
In my day, we
didn't have water. We had to smash together our own hydrogen and
oxygen atoms.
(Diana Hugue, Bowie)
November-December 1997 AVI Newsletter <http://netvet.wustl.edu/avi.htm>
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