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true online community, not one built by a multi-national company
with millions of dollars. This group of British dentists
communicate daily, and have a major interest at heart, their
livelihood, their profession. As in any community, you will find
the loud, the quiet, the brave, the faint-hearted and the foolish
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| Find answers to difficult questions, swap ideas about promoting your practice, discuss unusual cases, share ideas, meet dentists from around the country, talk about the latest Government plans, debate dental ethics, all of these things, any time of day or night, delivered daily to your inbox. |
As with magazines, interested people can
subscribe to a mailing list covering a particular topic,
but unlike a magazine, articles to a mailing list are
sent to all subscribers as they are written. All
subscribers are encouraged to write to and for the list,
and each article invites further response from the list
members.
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- An Internet mailing list offers
General Dental Practitioners (GDPs) a chance to
communicate, collaborate and co-ordinate activity
efficiently, in a wide scale. This list is most interesting to
dentists and other dental care professionals registered in Britain with the General Dental
Council, and they are very welcome to join
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- This mailing list, for dentists in general
practice in the UK, is private, and is not intended for
the general public. This will spare list members from
unnecessary questions that permeate Internet newsgroups
related to dentistry and medicine.
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Web pages may contain updated information,
but users may not visit them to see this, e-mail has the
advantage of delivery to the user's PC every time they log
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- Information needs in general dental practice
are not met efficiently. There are books, academic
journals, commercial magazines and discussion with
colleagues. There can be too much information. Paper
based journals are presented in a one-to-many format; it
is difficult to obtain a quick response via Letters to
Editor, which is inefficient. Messages on an Internet
mailing list are distributed on a many-to-many format,
allowing list members to discuss and debate issues as
they arise. In effect, list members join a "virtual
conference", which is perpetual and ubiquitous.
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GDPs experience considerable stress in their
interactions with patients, and this stress can be
relieved by discussing matter with other dentists. Advice
from colleagues is often sought by telephone or at local
meetings, as GDPs are often single handed, or work in
small groups.
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