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Discern Project - Tool for assessing the quality of health information found on the Internet. Designed for use by consumers and still under development by the University of Oxford.
Patient Information Publications - directory of health sites with informative reviews.
The Quality Information Checklist - Checklist to help you assess the quality of information you find on the Internet.
Medical Claims - A site produced by Medical Litigation, the monthly Medico-Legal Journal. How to complain about medical treatment and advice on how to set about making a claim.
The Patients Association - A national voluntary organisation run by an elected Council and independent of government and health service organisations. Advises, supports and campaigns for better services for patients.
Help for Health Trust - Independent body supplying consumer health information in the UK. Site contains information on Centre for Health Information Quality (CHiQ) and links to other resources.
Medical Pages - Directory listing UK health sites. Hospitals, GP practices, specialist sites, support groups, medical and health products.
NHS Direct Online - Official Web site for the NHS 24 hour telephone helpline, NHS Direct. Information about health problems. How to keep healthy. Advice on when to call for help.
Surgery Door - Health information site produced by Intouch with Health Limited. Good range of information covering specific diseases, healthy living, alternative medicine and using NHS services.
Private Healthcare UK - helps people find information about private health insurance, private hospitals, nursing and residential care, health screening and the private healthcare industry in general.
NetDoctor - Extensive collection of health information for paients, provided by an independent commercial company with a team of medical editors.
Hip Replacement - The site provides information about hip replacement surgery, its advantages and disadvantages and what to expect in hospital before, during and after surgery.
Patient Protect - Unofficial organisation which aims to expose and prevent neglect and incompetence in the health service. Site details some examples of problems, contains useful advice on how to complain and provides a list of relevant organisations.
TheSite - YouthNet UK is a small registered charity, providing information on drugs, health, sex, housing and relationships for young people in the UK.
Health Information for Wirral Area - This is the Wirral Health Services Web site for providing information about Health care, Health Information and support in Wirral
Mediseek.co.uk - A directory of private health practitioners, searchable by postcode. Consists mainly of alternative practitioners.
The Medical Defence Union - Prepared by the body charged with defending doctors in claims of medical negligence. This site has many helpful pages of information for both the professional and the patient.
Medical Neglect UK - A site for raising public awareness of medical negligence.Contains resources for the making of complaints and latest medical news.
Student Health - Extensive information for students and young people on travel, sport, sexual and other health issues.
Healthsourceuk.com - Source of health information for the general public, commercially unbiased, with accurate constantly appraised medical information for informed health choices.
CareHealth -guide to private health care UK - Independent guide to private health care in the UK. Private hospitals, self-payment, medical insurance. Includes BMI Healthcare, BUPA Hospitals, Nuffield Hospitals, NHS Private Wings
Medicdirect.co.uk - Extensive Web site containing a good collection of medical information.
Webhealth - Information and advice to health professionals and patients with self-help groups, research, nutritional advice, alternative and complementary medicine.
Action for Victims of Medical Accidents. - Registered charity giving free advice about complaining about healthcare or clinical negligence litigation in the UK.
Malcolm Rowley Trust - The story of Malcolm Rowley, as told by his mother, who died while in the care of Social Services. Site provides factual information about the rights and responsibilities of parents and carers.
Embarrassing Problems - Information and excerpts from the book to help you deal with health problems that are difficult to discuss, including shyness, baldness, acne, and sex.
Clinical Claims - Advice site to refer and handle clinical negligence claims. For patients who are the victims of medical accidents and those who support and advise them.
Healthsites - Find healthcare information and advice from medical conditions, health organisations, complementary medicine, local services and up to date health news.
The Health Service Ombudsman - Investigates complaints about the National Health Service, but only after the official local complaints channel has been used and if a patient or patient's representative is still unhappy with the handling of the complaint.
Medway Carers Centre - Offers support with benefits, letter writing and dealing with professionals.
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard For Patients I hate work. That's why I got married. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. -- Shane Leslie I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. For Patients If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. -- Abraham Lincoln He who limps is still walking. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess For Patients Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that th For Patients I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory! -- General Douglas MacArthur When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender For Patients The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings For Patients The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W For Patients The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec For Patients Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau ( One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin For Patients I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring. -- Alphonse Karr For Patients Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams Marry in haste, repent in leisure. -- Tilney Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -- ROBERT FROST Spinster: A bachelor's wife. For Patients You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. -- Paula Poundstone Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey For Patients For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. For Patients blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toil "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) For Patients There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) For Patients A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -- George Santayana "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry For Patients Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- John F. Kennedy "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement. -- Cousin Woodman "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) For Patients Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi For Patients We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life For Patients Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous For Patients A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -- Oscar Wilde Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint. -- Robert Browning Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx For Patients "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! -- Will Rogers For Patients
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