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Do you go to "car college"? Are you missing out on valuable minutes every day to simplify your life, catch up on important industry news and more? Read about how to go to school on the road!

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Hit the road for overload! All HCP's have towering stacks of journals and "throw-aways" that we just don't get around to reading and can't find the will to simply discard. There might be a 'pearl' in there; essential for the treatment of a future 'zebra'. And yet, they seem to be pumping this stuff into our mailboxes using high pressure fire hoses. How do we regain control?

Clinical information overload is a REAL problem for all HCP's. Over 150,000 medical articles are published each month -- how can you keep up? You must be wise in information management, little grasshopper. And to do that, you must go to "Car College". Car college means that you need to keep up with medical advances during your commute time.

But you say you don't commute an hour each way? No problem....

I listen to the very inexpensive Audio Digest cassette tape series, also available in my hospital's library. When I was working full time, I had a 15-minute commute each way to my office; ten trips weekly, 46 weeks annually (you gotta allow for some vacation time). When you do the math (feel free to prove it to yourself), that's 119 hours per year. That 119 hours can be spent with erudite friends on NPR, or with music from Smash Mouth, Foo Fighters or Bare Naked Ladies, or it can be invested in keeping up with the vast and ever-expanding body of medical knowledge.

Then when you see those piles again, just cart them to your curbside recycling bin. You will never catch up with the old paper, so don't even try. Skim then discard all new peer review journals upon their entry into your life. Read the throw-aways that you enjoy, and throw the rest away! Use technology, such as Up To Date, or Physicians Online, on a need to know basis to seek new knowledge for specific patients.

This is where the rubber meets the road. Drive on over to Car College!

~~ Sanity Tip ~~

Did you know Audio Digest Foundation provides 'hiccoughs' everywhere with both CME and CE credits in audio format?! Visit them at www.audio-digest.org or 800/423-2308 today!!

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"I wouldn't worry too much about it," the doctor replies. "Lots of people have harmless delusions. It will pass."

"But you don't understand," the woman insists. "He sleeps with his mouth open, and the little light keeps me awake."

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