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THE ELECTRONIC ROAD TO INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
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Conventional Medicine for Alternative & Complementary Practitioners Alternative and Complementary Medicine for Conventional Practitioners How to Find, Evaluate and Use the Resources of On-line Health THE TECHNOLOGY Basic Tools
Basic Tools for Electronic (Re)Searching: Browsers, Bookmarks, Search Engines, Directories, Omnibus Websites, Focused Websites, E-mail & Communication Groups
Resources
Online Resources for Conventional & Alternative Medicine: Portal Directories, Search Engines, and Websites Offering News, Knowledge, Advice, Data, Discussion & Service
Strategies
Strategies for Personalized, Problem-focused Health (Re)Searching: From Information, Advice & Support to Institutions, Practitioners, Companies & Products
Education
Self-Health
Tutorials
Classes
Written Materials
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THE TEACHER 
Toby Marotta, Ph.D.
Toby Marotta teaches people how to use the Internet for education and self-help. His specialty is on-line medicine.
In tutorials and classes, he supplements hands-on computer demonstrations with authoritative published materials. He distinguishes the interests of health-care consumers from the know-how of health professionals while accommodating the needs of both.
Toby Marotta has four degrees from Harvard University including a Ph.D. in Education. Capitalizing on two decades of work as a medical anthropologist, after five years in the business of computer training, he teaches people how to use the Internet for education and self-health.
Toby Marotta, Ph.D.
(520) 884-1137
THE TRAINING Every on-line search service has its health section. Dozens of directories promise to meet the medical needs of researchers, professionals, and consumers. There are thousands of web sites devoted to health and medicine. How best to utilize these resources? First of all, you need a grasp of all that the Internet and its World Wide Web make available. I supply this overview by discussing the most popular tools used for electronic research. Basics understood, you have to know how to make your way around the Web of Medicine and Health. I introduce you to this section of the Internet by identifying its most highly regarded on-line directories. Next I demonstrate search engines developed specifically for the medical field. Then I show you how to employ these tools to locate the best sites for conventional and alternative/complementary medicine. Health-care consumers and their advisers tend to approach the Internet with practical agendas: What questions to ask a doctor about a suspected or diagnosed disease? How to learn more about recommended treatments and prescribed drugs? How to educate loved ones of different ages and backgrounds? For the benefit of self-educating individuals as well as professionals concerned about patient education, I have developed a process-based approach to health (re)searching. This process begins with web sites supplying understandable expertise and personalized advice -- conventional and alternative. It proceeds to sites specializing in support groups, products, and services. Like the Internet itself, e-searching for health leads from knowledge to business. One begins by learning how to obtain information of every sort. One ends up with the options afforded by electronic commerce. So I conclude my presentations by teaching you how to use the Internet and its Web to make more reliable health-related purchases.