0 Comments
What Happens to PubMed When a Shutdown Looms?

What Happens to PubMed When a Shutdown Looms?

1.2 - Sector story
An easy-to-read summary of Hilda Bastian’s post on PubMed and the US Government Shutdown Every now and then, something happens in the world of health information that makes all of us — librarians, researchers, teachers — sit up straight. Recently, a message on PubMed’s home page did just that. It mentioned the possibility of disruption due to a US government shutdown. And for anyone who depends on PubMed daily, that’s a scary thought! Hilda Bastian, who often writes excellent, evidence-informed posts about science communication, explored this in her blog — “Tracking Shutdown Impact and Changes at PubMed”. I read it…
Read More
0 Comments
How Search Skills Helped an Anesthesiologist Save a Patient’s Limb

How Search Skills Helped an Anesthesiologist Save a Patient’s Limb

4 - Guest posts
In this guest post, we share a powerful real-life story from Dr. Jitendra Bapat, an anesthesiologist. Dr Bapat had used the PubMed search skills he learned from QMed to find a crucial answer to treat his patient. He describes this as an invaluable experience. Incidentally this also led to his resident presenting this case study at a conference, and winning a prize I am Dr. Jitu Bapat, an anesthesiologist, and I would like to share how QMed’s training directly helped me in patient care. During an emergency duty, I received a call from the recovery unit about a patient who…
Read More
0 Comments

Challenges in Patient Care – which information resource helps?

2.2 - Do you know - Knowledge Bytes
I love reading blog posts written by Dr SP Kalantri - Prof of Medicine in MGIMS, Sevagram. One very fascinating post was about a young girl who was brought in late night to the hospital - as he describes - "motionless and speechless" His post describes how the residents tried everything they could and then it was a lecturer who used her intuitive skills to think about a possible snake bite (krait) and to treat the patient successfully! Dr Kalantri concludes his post by saying - "We cannot rely solely on Western textbooks to effectively care for acutely ill people…
Read More