{"id":21,"date":"2004-12-15T13:05:37","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T13:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2004-12-15T13:05:37","modified_gmt":"2004-12-15T13:05:37","slug":"dr_dialup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/15\/dr_dialup\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Dial-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Click here to read more\" href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2111023\/\">Click here to read more<\/a><br \/>\nThere is a new initiative underway to make biomedical research immediately available on line and free to the public. According to the Pew Internet &#038; American Life  Project, 66% of those with internet access have used it to look for health\/medical information. That means that over 85 million Americans (and who knows how many people worldwide) went online last year to doctor themselves. Is this a new kind of do-it-yourselfer, the amateur physician, Google-ing a diagnosis and a cure? And when all of this new &#8220;information&#8221; becomes available, will the office visit&#8211;which the HMOs are already putting the squeeze on&#8211;become a thing of the past?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to read more There is a new initiative underway to make biomedical research immediately available on line and free to the public. According to the Pew Internet &#038; American Life Project, 66% of those with internet access have used it to look for health\/medical information. That means that over 85 million Americans (and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[755,893,1165,1366,1367,1435,1600,1997],"tags":[2760],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-internet","category-medical","category-open_access","category-open_content","category-pew","category-research","category-web","tag-open_access-open_content-medical-internet-google-research-pew-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}