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TidBITS#575/09-Apr-01

Hate the wait to ask a simple medical question of your doctor in this age of Internet email? This week, Dr. Ron Risley looks at the implications of online medical correspondence from doctors’ and patients’ viewpoints. We also sort out the facts about Apple’s recent firmware upgrades and shift our focus away from Mac OS X with a review of The Mac OS 9 Bible. In the news, check out the releases of Netscape Communicator 4.77 and Toast 5 Titanium.

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Netscape Releases Communicator 4.77

Netscape Releases Communicator 4.77 -- Netscape has released Communicator 4.77, a maintenance update that provides a few minor fixes to the company's older Web browser for the Mac (most of Netscape's development efforts are focused on Netscape 6 - see "Netscape 6 Arrives on Wobbly Legs" in TidBITS-556)

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UpdateAgent Correction

UpdateAgent Correction -- After reading last week's article on installing Mac OS X (see "Out of the Box: Installing Mac OS X" in TidBITS-574), the folks at Insider Software pointed out that the TidBITS copy editing team might want to spend some time back in the box

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What’s Up, eDoc? Emailing Your Doctor, Part 1

It's a frustration I'm sure everyone has experienced: you have a medical question. You want to follow the advice in those pharmaceutical commercials and "ask your doctor," but the next clinic appointment is three months away and it seems silly (and expensive) to schedule an appointment just to ask a simple question