This is something I get to hear from many faculty members and sometimes from students who have heard my lectures or webinars more than once. More often it is faculty members who say this as they are the organizers of events and the people who invite me to speak. It…

A live workshop after two-and-a-half years I recently did a live workshop at the King George's Medical University, Lucknow.  We covered Literature Searching in PubMed and Cochrane Library, and also Mendeley for Reference Management. It was wonderful doing one after a gap of two-and-a-half years. It is great when students/residents…

Some time back we had a blog post - When Patients Google We had mentioned about how concerned doctors were about the misinformation that they could pick up - and rightly so. But, there are times when Internet research by the patient (or family member) can make a huge difference. Here…

A few years ago a colleague told us a story. She and her relative had a joint bank account. Once when she went to deposit a cheque of her relative’s, the bank told her that the latter’s name did not exist in the account! Our colleague happened to have an…

An Event: In 2010, I had conducted a PubMed workshop. At the end, a doctor asked me” “Can you do a half day program for practitioners, where they learn how to search all resources to actually treat a patient?" And I answered – “Doctor, would you ask for a change…