Reading: Keeping Current

Reading is the primary source of physicians’ medical information. Print is not only the most highly developed and plentiful medium for medical information, but is also relatively economical, convenient, and easily accessible. The electronic media have become competitive with, if they have not surpassed, print media because so much information is readily available at the press of a button. Many physicians are using the Internet to gain easy access to the emerging array of information sources. Almost all the world’s recent medical information is readily available to computer-literate physicians. Although this chapter deals primarily with print publications, remember that most recent information is available both electronically and in print.