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Tim Albert Training - Specialised courses for health professionals who wish to improve their writing skills.
British Hypertension Society - Research into hypertension and related vascular disease, including coronary heart disease. Produces and distributes guidelines and educational materials for health professionals.
UKpractice - Password restricted Internet portal designed for doctors. Free accredited educational courses, information and forums.
The Medical Algorithms Project - A Medical Algorithm is any computation, formula, survey, or look-up table, useful in healthcare. Over 1600 algorithms available, organized into 43 chapters. Available as zipped Excel workbooks for download.
Clinical Governance Research and Development Unit - Resource for GP practices, Primary Care Groups and Health Authorities. Based within the Dept of General Practice, Leicester University. Details of research projects, a model for clinical governance and a number of useful audit protocols are available.
TOXBASE - Online database of the National Poisons Information Service. Access restricted to registered users, such as general practitioners and hospital departments.
Wessex Deanery - Postgraduate Medical and Dental education in the Wessex area.
Sowerby Centre for Health Informatics - Based at Newcastle University. A research and education centre for health informatics. Projects include PRODIGY.
Public Health Observatories - Umbrella site for the eight Public Health Observatories, set up by the Department of Health, to provide knowledge, information and surveillance in public health.
The Princess Royal Trust for Carers - Information, advice and support for carers. The Trust's has network of approximately a hundred Carers Centres in the UK.
Doctors Net UK - Access restricted to GMC registered doctors. Medical databases, pharmaceutical/drug index, medical articles, forums. Free E-mail service available.
Public Health Laboratory Service - Official body (England and Wales) for detecting, diagnosing, and monitoring infectious diseases. Statistics and fact sheets available.
OMNI: Organising Medical Networked Information - Collection of quality assessed Internet resources in medicine and related sciences. Comprehensive database with search facilities.
medicsinfo.co.uk - Online resource centre for British medical students and practitioners.
The MedWeb - Medical engineering directory with news and links.
Wisdom Project - Networked learning in the new NHS. For primary health care. Developed from a project commissioned by the NHS executive. Excellent library of resources. Mailing lists.
CESDI - Confidential Enquiries into Stillbirths and Infant Deaths - Annual reports available in PDF format. Bound copies can be ordered. Information on post mortems for patients and professionals.
South Devon Health Libraries - Provides access to databases, patient information leaflets, local and national guidelines and useful links. Some parts are password restricted.
Minor Illness Forum - Website designed to share experience of managing minor illness in Primary Care - particularly the role of practice nurses.
UK Health Centre - Guide to UK health and medical resources on the internet
Centre for Health Information Quality - For those involved in producing patient information.
Inmed Ltd - Teaching resources about meningitis for healthcare professionals, produced by a company owned by the National Meningitis Trust.
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications - Health section of this collaborative project which aims to make scientific information freely available to the worldwide community.
Anticoagulation.com - Some useful information anticoagulation treatment for GPs. Offering software for sale.
Medic8.com - UK medical portal for healthcare professionals on the internet. Access specialty sites, databases, journals, online textbooks, organisations, & jobs.
Specialist Info - Directory of Hospitals, Trusts and Specialists in the UK.
National Research Register - Database of ongoing and recently completed research projects related to the National Health Service. Information on over 49,000 research projects.
Binleys Online - UK health and care information specialist provides online National Health Service information including Medical Dictionaries, GP Practices, Hospital Doctors, NHS Local Government and Retail Pharmacists
Health Libraries Network - Network of information from various NHS libraries.
Zyban - Site for healthcare professionals providing an explanation of nicotine addiction and information on Zyban.
Health News - News and information for medical professionals and those associated with the medical industry.
National Electronic Library for Mental Health - Mental Health resources. Virtual branch library of the government's National electronic Library for Health (NeLH). Site still under development (Jan 2000)
SRS-X - Educational resource from the Scottish Radiological Society. Xrays, online tutorials and case presentations.
Public Health Practice Unit - Aims to provide professional support for health improvement and to develop the capacity of professional and community networks to respond collaboratively to health challenges.
University of York: Health Economic Resources on the Internet - A range of links relevant to those working in the field of health economics.
Lucozade Sport Science Academy - Sports nutrition information and advice. Offers a sports science exchange as an information resource and a quarterly sports science e-mail update and newsletter upon registration.
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Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, For Professionals When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) For Professionals Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) For Professionals Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous For Professionals He who laughs last thinks slowest. -- Seen on a bumper sticker A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. -- Erma Bombeck For Professionals Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... -- Anonymous For Professionals You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes For Professionals I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -- Oscar Wilde A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe For Professionals For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. 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(William Hazlitt) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche For Professionals Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. -- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. 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(Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) For Professionals If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. Gibbons If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves For Professionals An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. -- Harold Loukes The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves For Professionals Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) For Professionals "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson For Professionals "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens For Professionals
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