How do you look up articles in pp?

[urge]

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Non university affiliated pp. No library at you hospital.

Just read the abstract and call it a day?

Pay $30 for each article? I bet there will not be many articles read at that price.

Is there any library service that you can subscribe?

 

[Gern Blansten]

Great question. I have often wondered the same thing. I get spoiled having access to whatever articles I want. My suspicion is that people read the ones they subscribe to and not much more. It can be very challenging to find full articles without some sort of subscription. Many journals are making access to full articles free after a certain period of time.

 

[Bertelman]

Have any friends still in academics? Maybe they can get articles for you, and in exchange you can give them the keys to your villa in Aspen one week a year.

 

[epidural man]

Non university affiliated pp. No library at you hospital.

Just read the abstract and call it a day?

Pay $30 for each article? I bet there will not be many articles read at that price.

Is there any library service that you can subscribe?

That is why I post the PDF as much as I can on this forum when it comes up.

Maybe it's illegal to do so...not sure.

 

[powermd]

Stay friends with your academic pals from residency. One might be generous enough to share a login/password to the library, heh heh..

 

[PMPMD]

Or just stay on SDN.

 

[Consigliere]

Just ask Blade. That dude is the undisputed MASTER of accessing (and posting) references on any topic imaginable. I'm pretty facile with the computer, but that cat makes me feels like I'm pounding away on an ole TRS-80.

 

[core0]

1. Try MDConsult http://www.mdconsult.com/php/317571739-334/home.html

It runs around $400 per year and gives you access to a number of text books. Covers full access to most articles.

2. Work out an agreement with a med school. If you proctor students or give a few lectures most places give you adjunct faculty status which allows you Library access.

 

[desflurane]

This is a great question and one that I have been trying to address for my blog. Indeed, information wants to be free and if you look long and hard you can find the article you are looking for in its entirety somewhere out there. I thought about creating a napster-esque website that made the search process easier. Right now that idea is stuck in publisher limbo. The big scientific publishers (LWW, Elsevier) have the market cornered and they know it. I'm not big enough to go in there and pull a Steve Jobs on them. Dunno about you but I'd pay .99 for a full pdf of the article I wanted. They want more like $99, so therein lies the problem.

MD Consult is good for textbooks. If that is the type of reference you are looking for then by all means sign up. My guess is you want the big anesthesia journals. As far as I know there isn't one place to get them all. Abstracts yes, full articles, no. There are some freebies of the new issues but that usually doesn't help a search.

Like everyone else said the best option would be to share an academic username and password. Good for you being all educated in pp!

 

[SLUser11]

Non university affiliated pp. No library at you hospital.

Just read the abstract and call it a day?

Pay $30 for each article? I bet there will not be many articles read at that price.

Is there any library service that you can subscribe?

Although I'm not doing private practice, my plan when considering PP was to always maintain an email address and loose affiliation with my training institution. Libraries are usually not too strict about who they will allow to have access to their resources.

On a side note, the Texas Medical Center library is phenomenal, with all types of textbooks, Ovid, and most journals you can think of online. Here's a link to that.

http://the.library.tmc.edu/usingthelibrary/membership.html#TexShare

 

[Noyac]

My hospital library gives us free access to up-to-date and recently has decided to switch to Dynamed(?).

 

[deleted126335]

Private practice docs have no need to look up articles. Reading consists of Sports Illustrated, Guns and Ammo, Car and Driver, Architectural Digest, and Financial publications

Everything else-refresher course lectures and ACE.

 

[pjl]

A+A is not that unreasonable (free with IARS membership, includes some CME) ~140
Between that and Anesthesiology you have most of the big anethesia articles

 

[proman]

Both Anesthesiology and A&A are currently free through the iPad apps. Those two cover a lot of ground. High Wire Press at Stanford has a lot of free journal access too.