Patient Education Links on the Web

Dr. Koop's excellent patient education can be found at http://www.drKoop.com/

Healthwise, is a US "gold standard" patient education company. Their information is at: http://www.allhealth.com/healthwise/kb/0,4260,6579_124813,00.html

Mayo Clinic has a large web site for patients at http://www.mayoclinic.com/

Health on the Net Foundation offers resources at http://www.hon.ch/

Healthfinder at http://www.healthfinder.gov/ - your free guide to reliable health information. A service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

MEDLINEplus, "a gold mine of up-to-date, quality health care information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health" is found at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

The University of Iowa Medical Center's superb, Virtual Hospital, is available at http://www.vh.org/