“For the teacher and the worker a great library… is indispensable. They must know the world’s best work and know it at once. They mint and make current coin the ore so widely scattered in journals, transactions and monographs.”
- William Osler, in Books and Men, in Aequanimitas, 210.
Today we saw the latest installment of the MedLib’s Round (edition 1.6 no less) burst into the webosphere. This collation of blogging excellence pulls together commentary on medical informatics in all its forms from across the blogging ecosystem. It is great to see more trees growing in the medical informatics blogosphere, and the canopy around Laika’s MedLibLog is looking particularly lush. This rich source of information mulch will help more of us doctors make the transformation from mushroomness into something leafier…
After all, who wants to be a mushroom?
“My theory on Feds is that they’re like mushrooms — feed ‘em sh*t and keep ‘em in the dark.”
- Mark Wahlberg as Dignam in The Departed.
Mushrooms
Old Billy O’ would surely approve. These days, the web is our library.
“A physician who does not use books and journals, who does not need a library, who does not read one or two of the best weeklies and monthlies, soon sinks to the level of the cross-counter prescriber, and not alone in practice, but in those mercenary feelings and habits which characterize a trade.”
- William Osler, The Functions of a State Faculty. MARYLAND MED J 1897;37:73-7.
Addendum (30 Sept 2009): Stop the press! There’s more leafy goodness from Laika’s MedLibLog with the arrival of the Medical Blog Grand Rounds (Vol 6 No 2) – that’s right, two amazing blog rounds just a few days apart… Hopefully @laikas has a holiday coming up!
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