Without imagination-without an actively cultivated imagination-not only do health care workers themselves suffer, but so too do their patients, argues Dr Anne Scott in this issue of the journal.' 2 Why? Because only by being able to imagine what it is like to be the other person, the patient, only by being able to enter imaginatively into the world of the patient, is the health care professiona...

Data mining is applied in many areas in order to extract useful patterns out of large amounts of data. There are several applications of data mining in the real world. It is used by Amazon to improve its search and Google News to cluster relevant news articles. It is also used for improving sales strategy, anomaly detection, and many other applications. Collecting information from text data is ...

Medical literature searches have become more complex because of the increasing amount of published material and the multiple available databases indexing those publications. Although newly graduated physicians may have received some training in literature searching as part of a medical school curriculum, most clinicians have received no formal training in this skill. In today's world of evidenc...