Florida Health Finder A very educational and informative site for more than 150 medical conditions and procedures
Florida Practioner Profiles. Good resource to check on discliplinary history, criminal records and malpractice suits.
Hospital Compare In this tool you will find information on how well hospitals care for patients with certain medical conditions or surgical procedures, and results from a survey of patients about the quality of care they received during a recent hospital stay.
MD Consult Provides the entire medical journal article (rather than an abstract
MD in a Box Good links to medical subspecialties and federal research links, as well.
PubMed Searchable medical databases for abstracts of articles by subject or author.
Researching Medical Issues on the Internet"Medical journals, dictionaries, textbooks, indexes, rankings, images – all can be found on the Net, and much of it is free. The sources include publishers, government agencies, professional organizations, health libraries, and commercial entities. The following is not intended to be an exhaustive list, but rather notes on databases that I have found to be reliable and useful."