Medicine and the Internet tells you how. This book sets out to introduce doctors and medical students to health-care information available online. Allied health professionals will find much of the material in this book relevant to their own requirements for a general introduction to Internet resources and terminology. If you are uncertain about the usefulness of online medicine in your practice or study, this book will help make up your mind.
Doctors are among the growing number of people who are using modems.
A modem is a device that allows you to send information from one computer to another over cables or telephone lines. Computers and their modems can be linked together to form networks , so that they can exchange information on a regular basis. Using a modem you can telephone one of these networks and make use of the information stored on the computers that make up the network. Part One of this book covers getting started with computers, modems, and the communications programs needed to make everything happen. Sometimes it consists of libraries of programs and other files.