Good site to ask random medical questions?

[Blueberrycowpie]

I'm not sure if this is the right place, but it doesn't seem to be. Anyone know forums of website that I could ask random medical questions I have? I'm not looking for medical advice, but often times I have questions that I cant find the answer to online (e.g. uptodate) or in my medical books

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[Espressso]

Just out of curiosity, what kind of questions aren't in our textbooks, uptodate, or any other medical journal?

 

[Blueberrycowpie]

It's not that the information is not out there, but sometimes it's difficult to find. I was wondering if there is some sort of forum that is helpful for that

My current question is on drug induced immune hemolytic anemia - the peripheral smear will most of the time be Coomb's positive, but in terms of being IgG or C3 positive in smear seems variable and depends on the drug implicated. I was able to find a short list of drugs on uptodate listing what is typically seen in the smear, but I doubt that is very sensitive or specific.

Truthfully I could go through the primary articles, but that would take a few hours to do. I'm just trying to familiarize myself with the topic, so I was wondering if there was a forum I could go on and talk to people about different medical topics

 

[libertyyne]

It's not that the information is not out there, but sometimes it's difficult to find. I was wondering if there is some sort of forum that is helpful for that

My current question is on drug induced immune hemolytic anemia - the peripheral smear will most of the time be Coomb's positive, but in terms of being IgG or C3 positive in smear seems variable and depends on the drug implicated. I was able to find a short list of drugs on uptodate listing what is typically seen in the smear, but I doubt that is very sensitive or specific.

Truthfully I could go through the primary articles, but that would take a few hours to do. I'm just trying to familiarize myself with the topic, so I was wondering if there was a forum I could go on and talk to people about different medical topics

what you are looking for is clinicalkey. Depending on the quality of access on the backend you will have access to specialist books. and chapters can come up with a simple search.

 

[shemer77]

I'm not sure if this is the right place, but it doesn't seem to be. Anyone know forums of website that I could ask random medical questions I have? I'm not looking for medical advice, but often times I have questions that I cant find the answer to online (e.g. uptodate) or in my medical books

Reddit and this site are good places to ask questions. You just have to find the right thread/subforum.

 

[The Knife & Gun Club]

Yea you can ask questions about medicine here - you just can’t ask for homework help or personal medical questions.

Personally I really enjoy the nerdy medical debates we can get into on SDN