Pub Med

Pub Med is designed to make searching for medical literature easy. Instead of having to worry about finding the right terms, PubMed does the thinking for you — it interprets the words you type into the search box and tries to match those words with the medical subject headings, author names, journal titles, and other terms it thinks that you mean. And, there is the problem. No matter how smart PubMed is, it can't always figure out what you mean — and even when it can, the number of results it spits out is often overwhelming. In this chapter, we'll cover a couple of ways to make PubMed give you the results you want, not the results it thinks you might want.