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 Rant & Rave: Guest writer (an acerbic look at the web and how it affects medicine and the health care community.)
 Commentary on the Practice of Medicine.
 Patient Perspective on the Practice of Medicine.



 Telemedicine: what it is and how it will affect the medical profession..  Why get on-line? 
 Electronic Medical Record (EMR)-What does it mean?
 Computers in Medical Education
 Getting On-line: Nuts and Bolts
 Electronic Security-Authentication of EMR, Physician Security-how does it affect physician's attitudes about EMRs... 
 Case Studies (Minnesota Health Partners example)
 Internet Basics
 Medline-How many flavors, what will it do for me?
 Internet as a new media (cyberculture, Marshall McLuhan, reflection on medicine as a social profession)
 Commercialization of the internet, impact?
 Impact of computers/internet on the practice of medicine in 3rd world/developing countries.
 Intellectual property issues.
 Legal aspects of physician consulting over the internet. 
 Censorship on the internet, implications for medical profession?

 Ethical Issues in the Practice of Medicine.
 Ethnicity and Medicine
 Women in Medicine
 History of Medicine



 News Item Summary



 Case Presentations



 Work of Fiction
 Personal Narrative
 Poetry



 Dr. Nancy Sniederman



 Book Review
    True Stories from the Nation's ERs, Mark Brown, M.D.
 Product Review
 Software Review
    NMS USMLE Step I Board Review Software, W&W Publishing
 Web Site Review
    Patient-Center Web Resources
    Best Case-based Learning Resources on the Web

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 The Visible Human Project; Due 7/12/96,