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The use of oxygen in acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a prospective audit of pre-hospital and hospital emergency management

2003; Royal College of Physicians; Volume: 3; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.7861/clinmedicine.3-2-183

1473-4893

Ronan O’Driscoll, Roger J. Wolstenholme, Annette Pilling, Caroline Bassett, Mervyn Singer, Geoff Bellingan, George Skowronski, D E Stableforth, Claire O’Brien, Alastair K. Denniston,

Respiratory Support and Mechanisms

hate scrolling' .In practice this leads to a staccato style and makes it read like an exam notes book.Clicking on an underlined word (here italicised) in the online version leads to a web page.Thus, one discovers that Jakob Nielsen is 'the web usability czar' and the page to which one is directed includes a photo of him which can be downloaded.Clicking on Paul Starr's The social transformation of American medicine leads to the Amazon site where 'our price is £17.50' but 'we are unable to offer this title' .Clicking on Emma leads to Amazon again but clicking on the author leads to the Jane Austen information page.Clicking on David Halberstam leads to a site operated by a firm called Royce Carlton who can organise that he (among others including Kay Redfield Jamieson, Oliver Sacks, Susan Sontag, Terry Waite and Jonathan Miller) come and give a talk to your organisation.Some of the links are simply distracting.To explain the attraction of complementary medicine, Muir Gray suggests that patients in some orthodox hospitals feel 'just like a number in a huge machine as awesome and impersonal as the Metropolis of Fritz Lang'.It is not clear to me why the resourceful patient should wish to know about a classical German film maker.I often find excessive referencing in medical history articles irritating, but these web links are references gone completely mad!It was a surprise to find that St Peter was not underlined in the following sentence: 'The doctor is expected to act like St Peter, holding the keys to illness, to unlock the door through which many wish to pass.' Perhaps he doesn't have a website?The resourceful patient would find quite a lot to interest and educate him in this book if he could avoid being distracted by the web links.However, he would probably be equally well informed by reading a broadsheet newspaper every day and watching a few episodes of the American television drama ER (which is quoted twice with a web link).