The Knowledge I Carry Today Must Not End With Me

The Knowledge I Carry Today Must Not End With Me

A conversation that stayed with me The world's largest storehouse of knowledge is in the graveyard, said a Professor friend. And that made me feel "The knowledge I carry today must not end with me.". I must share it In QMed’s August 2025 newsletter, I had mentioned that I had been interviewed for a podcast as part of my school’s celebration of 40 years of our Alumni Association. Later, a classmate and a good friend, Mohan, was also interviewed as part of the same podcast series, and he happened to mention the above lines. Mohan had spent a part of…
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Finding Related Research and Identifying a Research Gap: Try “Connected Papers”

Short Summary Many researchers search PubMed to find articles on a topic, but few know how to visually map related research and identify gaps. In this post, I explore a real example using my paper on searching PubMed in radiology — and demonstrate how a tool like Connected Papers can help researchers refine or choose a research topic by finding related research or identifying research gaps or both! Why This Topic Matters When we publish, we often wonder: Who else has written something similar? Has the topic evolved? Is there a gap I can explore further?Traditional searching gives us a…
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QMed Turns Eighteen: A Journey That Still Feels Like the Beginning

QMed Turns Eighteen: A Journey That Still Feels Like the Beginning

QMed turns eighteen on December 19, 2025.- The journey still feels like a beginning—though not a fresh one.- It feels like standing at the edge of a runway, ready and waiting to take off.- What we need now is - for the health sector to truly want to master literature searching. - To understand why it matters! Deeply!Together we can help Indian research "fly high - like a bird in the sky - like an eagle that rides on the breeze!" (ABBA) Where It All Began From 1999 onwards, I ran QMed as a Private Limited company offering a range…
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