Comments on: The Changing Nature Of Authority: Doctors http://acrlog.org/2007/05/25/the-changing-nature-of-authority-doctors/ Blogging by and for academic and research librarians Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:32:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Marc Meola http://acrlog.org/2007/05/25/the-changing-nature-of-authority-doctors/comment-page-1/#comment-64021 Marc Meola Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:19:57 +0000 http://acrlblog.org/2007/05/25/the-changing-nature-of-authority-doctors/#comment-64021 Very interesting Maureen, thanks! I'd never heard of medical librarians helping patients find information. Makes a lot of sense! Very interesting Maureen, thanks! I’d never heard of medical librarians helping patients find information. Makes a lot of sense!

]]> By: Maureen B http://acrlog.org/2007/05/25/the-changing-nature-of-authority-doctors/comment-page-1/#comment-63589 Maureen B Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:57:54 +0000 http://acrlblog.org/2007/05/25/the-changing-nature-of-authority-doctors/#comment-63589 Has anyone read about the survey that tries to get at the value of having a librarian's help in getting info for patients at the Univ of Michigan Cancer Center? Check it out at http://www.cancer.med.umich.edu/news/medinfo06.shtml Has anyone read about the survey that tries to get at the value of having a librarian’s help in getting info for patients at the Univ of Michigan Cancer Center? Check it out at http://www.cancer.med.umich.edu/news/medinfo06.shtml

]]> By: How Doctors Think and consumer health, google « omg tuna is kewl http://acrlog.org/2007/05/25/the-changing-nature-of-authority-doctors/comment-page-1/#comment-29885 How Doctors Think and consumer health, google « omg tuna is kewl Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:09:16 +0000 http://acrlblog.org/2007/05/25/the-changing-nature-of-authority-doctors/#comment-29885 [...] 31st, 2007 · No Comments ACRLog recently reviewed a review of How Doctors Think, by Jerome Groopman.  The commentarystates, Finding and making sense out of medical information has a lot of pitfalls–from filtering out noise on Internet bulletin boards to finding reliable information that’s free and available to understanding how much about medicine is really unknown and uncertain, especially how it applies to your specific situation. It takes a great deal of knowledge even to know what kind of questions to ask your doctor. And who’s got the time to do all this research? [...] [...] 31st, 2007 · No Comments ACRLog recently reviewed a review of How Doctors Think, by Jerome Groopman.  The commentarystates, Finding and making sense out of medical information has a lot of pitfalls–from filtering out noise on Internet bulletin boards to finding reliable information that’s free and available to understanding how much about medicine is really unknown and uncertain, especially how it applies to your specific situation. It takes a great deal of knowledge even to know what kind of questions to ask your doctor. And who’s got the time to do all this research? [...]

]]> By: Michelle (Jane) http://acrlog.org/2007/05/25/the-changing-nature-of-authority-doctors/comment-page-1/#comment-29568 Michelle (Jane) Fri, 25 May 2007 17:42:30 +0000 http://acrlblog.org/2007/05/25/the-changing-nature-of-authority-doctors/#comment-29568 This is an interesting parallel to what is going on with people's regular information consumption and how it impacts library services. My friend and former boss now works at a medical library and they are light years ahead of other academic libraries in terms of Information Literacy education. Evidence based literature and information evaluation is a very important issue for doctors. Doctors are the driving need in the InfoLit movement in medicine, not librarians. She can barely keep up with demand for her services. Meanwhile, I have to beg profs to bring their classes into the library for a research project they have already assigned. Your post also makes me think of the movement to midwifery instead of a traditional hospital birth atmosphere. I think people are questioning many thing more closely then before and that is not a bad thing. This is an interesting parallel to what is going on with people’s regular information consumption and how it impacts library services.

My friend and former boss now works at a medical library and they are light years ahead of other academic libraries in terms of Information Literacy education. Evidence based literature and information evaluation is a very important issue for doctors. Doctors are the driving need in the InfoLit movement in medicine, not librarians. She can barely keep up with demand for her services. Meanwhile, I have to beg profs to bring their classes into the library for a research project they have already assigned.

Your post also makes me think of the movement to midwifery instead of a traditional hospital birth atmosphere. I think people are questioning many thing more closely then before and that is not a bad thing.

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