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  When an oncologist calls a medical research librarian and asks him to pull journal articles on a particular subject STAT because a patient's life is at risk and some new procedure might be the last resort, I'm damn glad that librarian has a masters degree, because that helps her know exactly what to look for, where, and right quick.[/quote]I sure hope an oncologist has learned how to find books in the library himself. And even an oncologist cannot provide patients with a new procedure. The health insurance companies have standardized care and it is very difficult for them to opt out of the norm.[/quote]

you think an oncologist should spend his/her time looking for books in a library? [/quote]

This scenario is just bizarre.  My dh is a doctor; he can easily pull up any research he needs from digital libraries without going to a library or needing assistance from a librarian.[/quote]

Agree.  Dh has always pulled together his own research.  Never even heard of using a librarian to do it for him before, sometimes one article leads a trail to another that may not seem correlated to the case but new info is gleaned from it.  I'm not sure how a librarian would know exactly what they are looking for when for when in many difficult cases doctors are searching for that needle in a haystack.

That said, I do have great respect for librarians and their work and hope that there will always be proper masters level librarians in our public libraries and school.  The amount of help I've received from them in school and college was immense.  I've just never noticed it with regard to the medical field.
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