All non profit organizations are not about charity. Some like QMed are “change makers”.

All non profit organizations are not about charity. Some like QMed are “change makers”.

I am often asked why QMed is a not-for-profit organization. And I think it is time I answered this in a blog post. Non-profit organizations work for overall societal benefit. Many work at making major changes in specific areas.  Some non-profits work for environmental preservation whilst non-profit Educational institutions create educated individuals. Libraries support the work of educational institutions. And yet, many people assume that non-profits mainly work for the underprivileged section of society. I felt that it is time to make some clarifications, and explain non-profits in the context of QMed. All non-profit organizations are first change makers. Their…
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Free public domain audiobooks: LibriVox

https://librivox.org/ The world of free audio-books opens up in this site, starting with children's literature. There are collections of various subjects, biographies and more. For the medical domain, click Browse by Genre, scroll down till you reach "Non fiction>Medical". Click this link and you find Grays Anatomy, works by Sir William Osler, Edward Jenner, Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing and more treasures!  
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Data, Tools and Statistics

Data, Tools and Statistics

Data, Tools and Statistics The National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR), a unit of the NIH hosts a directory of data, tools and statistics on https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hsrinfo/datasites.html. A wide range of resources is available in this directory and it is a boon for any data from the US. Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India From India we have the Open Government Data Platform at https://data.gov.in/ . This portal overall covers lots more than health, and browsing is best started by checking the available sectors - at https://data.gov.in/sectors
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