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  Lament for the Passing of the Textbook

  10 September, 2010

  A first-year medical student I mentor recently asked me:  “What’s the point in buying textbooks? Sure, I could pull it from a shelf in the library – or save time and just Google it. But wouldn’t I learn more from a Google search or a Medline search than by reading all those pages?” This seems… Read More