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Why Doc Can’t Keep Up

It is perceived that trained, licensed physicians are among the smartest, most informed people on the planet. A dozen years of college-level training, under profound medical faculty, at first-rate med schools and hospitals. No one is smarter, more capable, than a Good Doctor.

Well and good.

But last year, how many PubMed medical research reports were published, many having very useful and applicable patient treatment findings and recommendations?

1,282,432.
http://dan.corlan.net/cgi-bin/medline-trend?Q=

That’s about 3500 new papers a day. If only one tenth were useful to any particular physician (he’d have little way of knowing which were), a physician hoping to keep up with new information would have to read 350 papers a day. At 1 percent, a “mere” 35 papers a day. That’s two or three hours of reading time every day, day in, day out.

For those unfamiliar, PubMed is the major medical information site posting virtually all of the published papers on every medical topic. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

So, how come so many (well, all) physicians simply lack complete information on the latest medical findings? Simple. It’s impossible for any human to access, read, and compile the overwhelming amount of medical information generated each day. No physician in the world, even yours, can possibly stay well informed and totally up to date. Just too much information to take in. Not humanly possible.