With help from a fishing metaphor, this guide shows how six comprehensive health-information sites facilitate learning and teaching at different levels of depth, breadth, and difficulty. All six of these sites supply materials designed to be printed out. The middle two make it easy to e-mail their documents to others.

Waterfront View

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Shallows
Groups of physicians publish introductory overviews to supply basic instruction.

Beginner-Level Rundowns for People with a Range of Reading Skills, Including Low-Literacy, Plus Materials in a Variety of Languages, Especially Spanish
http://www.ohsu.edu/library/patiented/links.shtml

Virtual Hospitals
http://www.vh.org/index.html

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Currents
Affiliates of prestigious care centers report the views of innovating practitioners to publicize new health and medical options.

World Famous Health Care
http://www.mayoclinic.com

Leading Alternative, Complementary, and Integrative Medicine
http://www.drweil.com

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Mainstream and Its Depths
Acclaimed medical librarians organize full slates of authoritative materials to help broaden and deepen basic understandings.

"NOAH’s" Ark
http://www.noah-health.org

Aboard the National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus

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Fishing for Health Information
Covering the Waterfront
More Fishing Lore
Your Lead Angler