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Reading is the primary source of physicians’ medical information. Print is not only the most highly developed and plentiful medium for medical information, but is also relatively economical, convenient, and easily accessible.
All that goes on in medicine is to be the chief matter of interest to you. Hence you must be busy readers; and, as habits form, you will learn to look to medical journals with avidity, and new publications will be examined with keen relish. But to become distinguished, nay, to become even respectable in your profession, you must be something more than readers, you must become active thinkers and sifters of knowledge, learn, as Bacon counsels, to weigh and consider books.
Jacob M. Da Costa1
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Manning, P.P., Debakey, L. (1987). Reading: Keeping Current. In: Medicine: Preserving the Passion. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1954-3_2
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