Re: There is still an interest

I'm saying just what the best medical doctors are discovering at Tulane University: "you're either "perceived" or you're not." So the top doctors in New Orleans, Metairie, Jefferson, and other Louisiana Parishes are developing a presence ONLINE! The American Medical Association recommends an ONLINE presence, if it is only used to explain the doctor's specialty: what the doctor does and doesn't do, what insurance programs he accepts, the doc's office hours, emergency numbers, and how the consumer can call-up his next appointment time or even ask for a change in his/her appointment time. Access to an individual's medical records are impossible as the doctors' sites are dedicated the information the doctor agrees to release about himself--and only to display the critical facts any patient could forget. Thus the latter personal access by the patient requires a password and is still protected by pre-registration procedures, which a lot of doctors are automatically setting up on a separate server. Best of all, for my son and I, is the fact that we could trace a clear path that started with the one word "cancer" on M.D. Anderson's web site, and took us all the way through the actual "medical papers" and "medical textbooks" the specialist we needed to see had credited to his name. Medical people realize now that the patient does better when informed and up to date. This is just part of that "information cycle." M.D. Anderson also had over 8 pages of suggested reading-links on the particular disease we needed to know about. That one fact was well appreciated even though the prognosis was never changed.

The suggestions I made were good suggestions and I stand behind them. They were not commands. The information--excellent information--provided by only important web sites like KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu can help separate the hyperbole from the actual facts. The search for truth is what the site is all about. I see nothing wrong with advertising the site with all the above in mind. No one is suggesting or imposing their commercial views on this site. I talked with several soldiers from the Viet Nam experience, and they wished they had had such a site as this one on Korea.