| Sumario: | Patients are leading a health-care revolution by creating self-help communities on the Internet. These online networks, each of which is dedicated to a single health-related topic, offer technical medical information, practical advice on coping, emotional support, and online second opinions. Moreover, they encourage patients to take an extremely responsible role in their own care. These online support communities are available to anybody who has a home computer and a modem, are mainly free, and frequently feature volunteer health professionals who are experts on the condition in question.
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