Family medicine meets the blogosphere.
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More than 175,000 are created on the World Wide Web every day. Every second, more than 18 are updated. Blogs, or Web logs, are a growing Internet self-publishing trend, one especially worth noting as the use of health care blogs proliferates among physicians and patients. A quick introduction to a selection of health care blogs reveals their promise as educational and patient care tools, as well as their potential pitfalls.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Family practice management
دوره 14 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007