Medical science literature has become essentially inaccessible because of its size.

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" Medical science literature has become essentially inaccessible because of

its size. At the University of Washington, the Health Sciences Library

receives over 40 million new pages per decade from the journals to which it

s. Most of this material is both excellent and relevant to clinical

medicine. It isn't possible to turn this many pages in a decade. No

clinician (or even researcher) could possibly find the time to read 1%

(40,000 pages/year) of the flood. Thus, we are all ignorant of the greatest

findings. It might be stated: there is no area of human endeavor where

ignorance (of what is known) is growing as rapidly as in clinical medicine. "