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I must admit that I am a strong supporter of open access medical literature . My academic hospital provides doctors with access to subscribed articles from our workstations. Growing number of medical publishers switches from paper to digital only distribution. This is much more efficient in terms of searching for information, storing, as well as more environment friendly. With growing choice of electronic reading devices (PCs, notebooks, tablets, smartphones) it is even more easy and common to read medical literature in electronic form. However the way of accessing articles through hospital computer is still far from optimal. It happens to me that I struggle with a difficult case and find an interesting article in PubMed  that I can not open since the article is restricted by publisher and my hospital has no subscription. Yes I am offered a 30$! per article purchase, and yes I can order this article through my library - but I need this information now! What is ...

I have just finished listening to the latest book by Atul Gawande - The Checklist Manifesto. I was looking forward to this book after reading his previous  Complications book. The general style of writing is very honest, catching and inspiring. However what I mostly liked in Complications was the interesting medical cases presented with a very exciting narrative. The Checklist is somehow disappointing in this. There are fewer medical cases and plenty of aviation and real estate stories. This time I have chosen for the audiobook instead of classical paper book. It is interesting to confront those two different types of book "reading" experiences. Audiobooks allow for time efficient absorption of the reading material. Since I walk a lot an audiobook is a great alternative for me. However the traditional paper book allows to read more carefully, come back and re-read some parts of it. Audiobooks are more prone to distractions and missing some interesting points. In case of The ...

I have just finished reading this excellent book. I can highly recommend it. At first when I heard about it I was sceptic. Subject is very delicate and difficult to portray. I was afraid that the book would be addressed to the general public but to my very positive surprise it is so well written that it is a great read for both general and medical readers. Book is presenting a number of interesting medical cases and doing it in a very absorbing way. Atul not only describes the cases but uses them to discuss various delicate issues we, doctors, are dealing with in our daily practice. I very much agree with the points of view presented by the author. Looking forward to read more from Atul Gawande. Great job! Thank you.