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This happened even while this new world of connected and informed health consumers was constantly denigrated by almost all physicians and <a href=\"http:\/\/bmj.bmjjournals.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/319\/7219\/1217\/a\">physician organizations<\/a>. This new paradigm was a direct child of the concurrent growth of public access to the internet and of the development of medical knowledge systems available freely to all (e.g., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/\">PubMed<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/sites\/entrez?db=omim\">OMIM<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/cancertopics\/pdq\/cancerdatabase\">PDQ Statements<\/a>). Suddenly, everybody could gain easy and free access to information impossible to find until then, unless you had direct and constant access to the best medical libraries. This fact, associated with the availability of online peer communities profoundly transformed the level of understanding of millions of patients and\/or their caregivers about the medical condition that concerned them.<\/p>\n<p>Before the advent of the public internet, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strom.clemson.edu\/teams\/ced\/econ\/8-3No29.pdf\" target=\"_new\">rational ignorance<\/a> in medicine was absolutely normal. Then, in a cyber-instant everything changed. The cost of gaining significant understanding about almost any medical condition dropped to zero. 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