40. The method of claim 28 further comprising the step of creating a graphical display of the consensus of the responses from the medical professionals in the selected panel and displaying same in real time.
28. An online method of providing online medical consultation services utilizing a computer-implemented system connected to the internet to obtain quantitative and qualitative medical opinions from a panel of selected medical professionals, the method comprising the steps of: (a) creating a database of potential participating medical professionals, along with information about each potential participating medical professional, including the qualifications of the potential participating medical professional; (b) user seeking a medical consultation accesses the system; (c) user submits information regarding the desired medical consultation; (d) system selects a panel of medical professionals qualified to provide desired medical consultation based upon information in the database; (e) question(s) based on user submitted information and user submitted information are provided to the medical professionals in the selected panel; (f) medical professionals in the selected panel formulate response(s) to provided question(s) and comments regarding user submitted information; (g) responses and comments from the medical professionals in the selected panel are forwarded to the system; and (h) system calculates the degree of consensus of responses to questions, and displays same, along comments from the medical professionals, on a system website accessible to the user.