MedPage Today November 19, 2024
— Digital convenience can foster an illusion of competence and knowledge
You don’t need to know the role of the artery of Adamkiewicz or mechanisms of liver failure. You can Google it. And, you don’t need to remember it once you’ve looked it up — Google will remember for you!
The internet, with its limitless trove of content, revolutionizes the concept of memory — including within medicine. For medical students and physicians, the presence of unlimited information that exists just a click away has diminished the need for internal memory, or the retention of facts in our brains. Many of us quickly turn to digital resources like Google, UpToDate, or PubMed when confronted with complex medical questions or to confirm...
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