The Second Life search function is accessible via the 'Search' button at the bottom of the SL viewer window. The quick access buttons at the bottom of the viewer include the popular features including: chat, communication, fly, search, map, local map and the media buttons for video, audio, voice).
Using the search button, I ran the following quick searches:
medical consultations
hospital
psychologists consultations
medical association or medical associations
doctors consultations
and a few more...
On the results list I found a wide variety of locations, groups, avatars... with a few real life physicians with only a few mentioning their real life web sites. I googled a few of them. I was interested to see how real life physicians filled in the first life option on the profile.
What I noticed was that people did not take the opportunity to fill in the First life details. A means for verifying and authenticating RL medical professionals and their patients would need to be accessible to the patient and physician or other medical/health professional.
One of the real life organizations with medical and health consulting in SL is 
https://econsults.partners.org/v2/(d4auq5551qskwiqe0l2mti55)/Default.aspx
The Second Life counter-group was Partners Online Specialty Consultations. Their print version is only available via their web site.
The set of images from my searches can be viewed in larger format by clicking on the 'all sizes' option above the snapshots or in a slideshow:
http://tinyurl.com/nlkuh4/
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