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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…
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A little known PubMed search feature

A little known PubMed search feature

2.2 - Do you know - Knowledge Bytes
At the end of 2022 PubMed launched the "Proximity operator" feature. At the end of 2023, it would not be surprising to find that no one in India (or only a few) is aware of this. Proximity operators - available in most databases that we have to pay for, make searching much more relevant, when we search for terms like "Under developed countries". When we search these with the tags [ti] or [tiab], we are searching for the term as a phrase. When we search them with a proximity operator, then we are searching for the terms being near each…
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