title: Medicine and the Internet: dreams, nightmares and reality.
abstract: The Internet promises enormous benefits for medical education, medical research and clinical practice. However, potential problems include patients who are over- or misinformed or who become victims of the psychopathology of life on-line. Perhaps one of the most insiduous but profound effects of the Internet will be on the culture of medicine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology, St Bartholomew's, London. m.pallen@ic.ac.uk
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Pallen
mesh_terms: D015510:Clinical Medicine; D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D004501:Education, Medical; D006801:Humans; D011643:Publishing; D012106:Research