There are numerous web sites catering to physicians.  The following are just a sample of some that we use.

http://www.merckmedicus.com/  This is a very comprehensive site that includes news and alerts, journal scan, DXplain, ThereDoc, MDConsult, Harrison’s online, Merck Manual, Cecil Textbook of Medicine, dozens of free CME courses, Best Practice by Praxis.MD, drug reference, lecture slides and Dorland’s Dictionary.  Also included is Patient handouts on hundreds of topics and drugs and technology assessments of software and hardware products.

http://www.webmd.com/ has numerous features including Scientific American Medicine and Surgery online.  Patient handouts, CPT code average charges, CME and access to online medical records are also available.

http://www.mdconsult.com/ is available by subscription or can be accessed free through MerckMedicus.com or through GDAHIN locally.  This is an outstanding resource with 39 textbooks online, full-text journals, practice guidelines and drug information.  Patient handouts and CME is also available. 

http://www.pubmed.gov/ is the quickest and easiest way to search the medical literature listed in Index Medicus.  Only the reference and often abstracts are available but you can request the full document for a fee.  MDConsult may have the full-text journal available.  Or, if you subscribe to a journal it’s full text it is often available free online (JAMA, CHEST, CCM, NEJM are ones that I access). 

http://www.emedicine.com/ is another free site that brings you updates in your specialty and has medical reference articles online.  You can download the free book - eMedicine: Disaster and Trauma - onto your PDA from this site also.  Also, you can automatically receive all new article abstracts from any journal by email each week!

www.radiologyinfo.org RadiologyInfo is designed to answer your questions related to the many radiologic procedures and therapies available

http://www.medmatrix.org/ is a portal to medical literature, texts, CME, clinical practice, disease information, etc.

http://www.hospitalist.net/ is a website devoted to inpatient physicians, and all other health care providers with an interest in inpatient care.

http://www.medscape.com/   is yet another medical portal.  It has much of what others have with the free availability of  Tarascon ePharmacopoeia, V1.4.6 and Medical Calculator for your palm pilot. You can get specialty-specific news and updates pushed to your PDA each time you sync your handheld device.

http://www.gsm.com/ is another free site that specializes in pharmacology, has virtual 3-D human anatomy and has medical education courseware.

Other sites of interest for practicing physicians include the Ohio State Medical Association site, http://www.osma.org/, and the American Medical Association at http://www.ama-assn.org/.   

Palm Pilot software we use are found at:  http://www.epocrates.com/, http://www.pepid.com/ and http://www.handheld.com/ (5 minute Clinical Consultant, Patient Tracker 5.1, Harrisons Companion and PDR) and http://www.medscape.com/.

Other Palm Pilot and other handheld PDA medical software can be found at: http://www.pdamd.com/, http://www.handheldmed.com/, http://www.healthypalmpilot.com/, www.FPHandheld.com/softwarewindows.htm, http://healinghandheld.com/medpda.htm, www.medicalpocketpc.com/software.html,  http://www.redi-reference.com/, http://pbrain.hypermart.net/medrules.html and http://www.skyscape.com/. 

A couple PDA  billing and coding programs can be found at http://www.pocketmed.org/, http://pocketpa.imrac.com/, http://www.palmdr.com/, www.1-box.com/1-box/1boxconnected.html, www.statcoder.com/eandm.htm and http://www.edm2.com/.