Register for James E. Carter, MD
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OBGYN.net: How are you serving the Ob/Gyn community with Internet Technology?
Dr. Carter:
I am serving the Ob/Gyn community with Internet technology primarily by providing resource materials and patient
information on such topics as pelvic pain, incontinence, laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgery, polycystic ovary
syndrome, menopause, alternatives to hysterectomy and other topics which assist with diagnosis and treatment of
gynecologic conditions.
Thanks to the encouragement of the wonderful staff of
OBGYN.net and their extensive experience and assistance
with this, I now have a website, which provides additional background information on many gynecologic problems.
I provide my resource materials directly to OBGYN.net
as a very excellent way for caregivers and for women searching
for accurate information and scientific studies.
OBGYN.net:
Why did you get involved with the Internet?
Dr. Carter: I became involved with the Internet because of the wonderful team at OBGYN.net which has created this wonderful OBGYN.net community. At first I used the Internet simply as a medium for communication. For instance, as editor of the newsletter for the International Society for Gynecologic Endoscopists, I needed the Internet for communication with colleagues both in the United States and especially Overseas. However, with the assistance of the OBGYN.net community, we were able to place the International Society for Gynecologic Endoscopists Newsletter on the Internet for access by all of the Ob/Gyn community.
OBGYN.net: How long have you been using the Internet?
Dr. Carter: I have been using the Internet as a communication medium for several years.
OBGYN.net: What has been your greatest reward in using the Internet?
Dr. Carter:
My greatest reward in using the Internet has been experiencing the development of the breadth and depth of the
www.obgyn.net website and its ability to communicate to literally hundreds of millions of people at the same time
and provide them with credible, valuable and timely information. This website has been a remarkable achievement
and my greatest reward has been accessing it myself for information for both myself and my patients. The addition
of the new PCOS website has been a wonderful addition because such a large part of my medical practice now involves
women with this condition and there has been very little available to them as a resource. OBGYN.net is to be complimented
and thanked for their continued efforts to provide this type of timely and valid scientific information for the
entire community of women's healthcare providers and for women who seek accurate information from the Internet.
Because of OBGYN.net, women have been helped with their problems and found solutions by being placed in contact
with physicians who care. Because of the Internet, I was able to help a patient who traveled over 3, 000 miles
from another country who found that I had a particular resource that she needed that she was unable to find locally.
When I was able to provide her with the care she needed and she was again healthy, I saw again the importance of
the Internet.
OBGYN.net: How do you believe the Internet has changed the way you practice medicine?
Dr. Carter: The Internet has made me more efficient because I can find information quickly and keep up to date on many problems that would have required extensive library research in the past. In addition, my patients come in much better prepared and better educated about their problems because they have researched them on the Internet.
OBGYN.net: What is the future for the Ob/Gyn community on the Internet- what do you believe is possible?
Dr. Carter: I believe that through the sites such as OBGYN.net, women will be able to obtain accurate information about their conditions so that they do not have to simply rely on one caregiver's opinion about their conditions but can become better educated and therefore have better control of the decisions that are made. I believe this will result in many fewer invasive surgeries. These will be replaced by less invasive procedures and even by medical and interventional radiology treatments (such as the treatment of fibroids by embolization and the treatment of pain with intercourse with the "UPLIFT" procedure). As women obtain more information they will assist in educating their caregivers by giving them what they have located on the Internet. In this way the providers and those who are seeking care will be on more of an equal level in knowledge and to me this is a wonderful advance.
James Carter,
MD
James.Carter@obgyn.net
OBGYN.net Editorial Advisory Board Member, Chronic Pelvic Pain and Laparoscopy & Hysteroscopy
Web Site: http://www.obgyn.net/jcarter/jcarter.htm
