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Date: 05-02-07
Headline: Wiki-Based Medical Textbooks
Contents:
From Pamela Lewis Dolan, Physician wikis: Do-it-yourself 
textbooks, American Medical Association News, May 7, 2007: 
    ...Four cardiology fellows at the Cleveland Clinic 
recently launched a Web site on a platform they believe 
could be the medical textbook of the future -- the wiki....

    At least 30 medical wikis have popped up, with topics 
ranging from radiology to billing to rosacea. Most have few 
contributors, but all have similar goals -- to create a 
more vibrant, up-to-date conversation and library of 
knowledge than can be found in a textbook or journal.

   

    ...AskDrWiki, modeled after the popular online 
encyclopedia Wikipedia, was created as a place where a 
group of cardiologists could share and exchange information 
in a wiki format that could be accessed from anywhere....

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