In article <[log in to unmask]>, Adrian
Midgley <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Supposing you, as a doctor, decide to research something in order to
>manage a patient.
>
>Going to the Web you find nothing much of use or note.
>
>You therefore make searches in other ways, coming in the end to have a
>small set of notes which have satisfied your need at that time.
>
>IMHO you now have a duty to place those on the Web.
>
>Detail
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>COnsider, you were the first person to wish for the Web to include an
>article on tht matter.
>(Or the existing resources are so hard to find as to be outside th
>euniverse of discourse, we will not consider for th emoment poor search
>skills)
>
>Having made that decision - that there should be an article, and then
>gathered the material for the article, you should share it with the
>community whose knowledge you tried to share before.
>
>A cry from the back asks "What about payment?"
>-----------------------------------------------=======
>
>Get the material up there.  I will refrain from discussing ethical
>obligations and community spirit, and mention micro-payments instead.
>One day soon you may hope that each hit on your page will trickle
>another 10c into your on-line bank account, and if you get enough up
>there it will be your ISP paying you, not the other way around.
>
>
I have no problems with ANY of the above, provided the sites are peer
reviewed in some way. Payment is always a problem. The work needs to be
done by Drs, who cannot realise much of their UKP 100+/hr . Publishers
who pay authors realistic money would have to charge prices none of us
would pay for their products.

If you are doing the work out of interest anyway (or to improve care of
your patients) why not share?

the GP-TuT website seems the best bet if you don't want to go down the
mentor route. Mentor is a little different because it is designed to be
used with the patient there in front of you in the consulting room. Not
many of us feel confident enough to use the WWW real time in the
consulting room yet - and not get hours behind (provided we have
internet access from the consulting room - which I don'T)


I would like to take this opportunity for all those who have contributed
to this thread,  and/or emailed me. Please keep the comments/expressions
of interest (or disgust) flowing.

Regards

Huw

-- 
Huw Thomas


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