The Plain Dealer is the major newspaper in Cleveland and we are lucky to have Pulitzer-winning journalists writing for it. I especially enjoy the Friday section which lists many “things to do” for the weekend: festivals, museums, etc.
On Thursday, The Plain Dealer featured AskDrWiki, a medical wiki created by 4 cardiology fellows at the Cleveland Clinic. I know Ken Civello and Brian Jefferson and I think that they are incredibly bright and have a great future in front of them.
The medical wiki in question has unique, high-quality content, for example, more than 90 free videos of cardiac catheterizations. I can see sites, maintained by experts, like AskDrWiki, becoming competitors to UpToDate and other paid resources. UpToDate is useful but it charges “an arm and a leg” for individual subscriptions. Few companies can compete with free, if the quality is comparable. Look what happened to the once mighty encyclopedia Britannica — […]
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