(Pediatrics in Review. 2008;29:3-4.)
© 2008 American Academy of Pediatrics
A Flood of Information
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Many elements in our lives can overwhelm us and overload our circuits, including responsibilities, worries, and conflicting appointments. Even some treats we enjoy can get to be too much, such as tomatoes in the garden at the peak of the season, photographs waiting to be organized, and exceptional books crying out to be read. Another flood that threatens to engulf us is information. Even if we ignore the obviously misleading or irrelevant rivers of data flowing toward our minds, there is enough worthwhile, relevant, desirable information coming our way to sweep us over the falls.
Restricting our focus to medical knowledge, and even further to an understanding of pediatric medicine, we still find that sector of the information ocean stretching out to the horizon and getting bigger every year. There used to be lectures, seminars, workshops, textbooks, and journals. All of these sources have multiplied, and we have added continuing medical education courses, teleconferences, CDs and DVDs, and that infinite highway to knowledge about everything under the sun and beyond, the Internet. No wonder many practitioners feel they are lost at sea and going down for . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Lawrence F. Nazarian, MD, Editor-in-Chief
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