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Major medical textbooks have recently started to appear in full text on CD-ROM. This new form of technology offers superior searching capability, with split-second retrieval time, compact storage (i.e., an entire shelf of medical books can be put on a single disk), frequent updates, and the ability to print out and rearrange the text. For some internists these CD-ROMs may be their first encounter with this medium.
The Harrison's CD-ROM contains the textbook itself, whereas the Harrison's Plus CD-ROM contains two distinct parts: the textbook and the U.S. Pharmacopeia's Drug Information, a drug-information data base. We shall describe each of
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