The National Guideline Clearinghouse
A day does not go by in my office without someone telling me of a new great cure for some foot problem that they read about on-line. Every physician has to put up with this all the time. There is a lot of junk on the internet. This goes for the tons of wrong medical information put out. Luckily, for us our government has an asset we can all use to get the proper information when we need it.
What is the National Guideline Clearinghouse?
The National Guideline Clearinghouse is an online database of clinical practice guidelines for physicians and their patients (among others) to help them in decision making in regard to proper care for specific medical problem. The NGC is produced by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality which is part of the federal government.
This is our government getting it right. In one place, you can get the proper information from the panel of experts in a field. The guidelines contain standardized summaries about each condition and its development.
For a guideline to be accepted it must systematically developed recommendations, strategies, or other information to assist health care decision making in specific clinical circumstances, or have been produced under the auspices of a relevant professional organization (e.g., medical specialty society, government agency, health care organization, and been published in the last five years.
Try it today at http://www.guideline.gov.
About the Author: Dr. Burton S. Schuler foot specialist of Panama City, Fl and the director of the Ambulatory Foot Clinics is a leading authority on the Morton’s Toe Long Second Toe and it associated health problems. He is the author of the newly published book about The Morton’s Toe, Why You Really Hurt: It All Starts In the Foot. The book is published by the La Luz Press, Inc and is disturbed national by the Cardinal Publishing Group.
Dr.Schuler,graduated from the N. Y. College of Podiatric Medicine in 1975 at the age of twenty-four, and has been in private practice ever since. In 1982, he published his first book, The Agony of De-Feet: A Podiatrist Guide to Foot Care. During his thirty-five year professional career, he has written for Collier’s Encyclopedia and various podiatric journals and publications. He has been interviewed by The New York Times, First in Women, and other publications. Dr. Schuler has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs both here and aboard. He is a Diplomate of the American Academy of Pain Management, and the National Board of Podiatric Examiners. Dr. Schuler is certified as a wound specialist from the American Academy of Wound Management. His professional and civic accomplishments have earned his inclusion in the 1999-2002 Who’s Who in America (Marquis).
Why You Really Hurt: It All Starts In The Foot, is the story of how one bone in your foot could be the real reason for pains thru out your whole body. It is important because it offer the public new information about why millions of people suffer everyday with aches and pains, and offers new hope to get rid of problems they believed they would have to live with forever. It literally can be the “medical missing link”
