Medical encyclopedia

[1] A medical encyclopaedia provides information to readers about health questions.

A licensed physician should be consulted for diagnosis and treatment of any and all medical conditions.

Four major elements define a medical encyclopaedia: its subject matter, its scope, its method of organization, and its method of production: A.D.A.M (Animated Dissection of Anatomy for Medicine) contains articles discussing diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries and surgeries.

Content is reviewed by physicians;[3] the goal is to present evidence-based health information.

[5] The site was reported to have received over 17.1 million average monthly unique visitors in Q1 2007[6] and is the leading health portal in the United States.

The Hippocratic Oath is an oath traditionally taken by physicians pertaining to the ethical practice of medicine . It is widely believed that the oath was written by Hippocrates , the father of western medicine, in the 4th century BC, or by one of his students
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