Home on the Web
So if you are confused about what to take for that nagging case of yersiniosis or interested in the history of dengue fever, you should go to the Hawaii Medical Library.
The library is attached to Queen's Hospital, but you can get there quicker by setting your browser to http://hml.org/.
The library is a user-supported, nonprofit corporation serving the Honolulu County Medical Society, University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Health Sciences, member hospitals and members.
John Breinich, executive director, said the the WWW site is posting new links almost every day.
"We are trying to be as inclusive as possible, but we try to evaluate every site, so we are constantly checking," he said.
The Web page is a library of links to hundreds of other medical links here and around the country. They include a set of biographical sketches of more than 600 doctors from the early 1800s up to 1985 who practiced medicine in Hawaii, along with their pictures.
There is an interactive map of Mala La'au, the library's garden of medicinal Hawaiian plants. And there are updates from local medical research networks.
Coming later, said Breinich, will be a catalog of historical Hawaiian medical instruments along with photos of the tools.
The library also offers Internet and WWW classes for members and maintains two computers hooked up to the Internet that the public can use for research.