Informed Consensus: How to work with patients to achieve positive
treatment [ http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2004/04/05/hlsa0405.htm ]

excerpt of interest to librarians justifying their services:
"The ease of obtaining medical information from the Internet is another
driver, as is the growth of research on evidence-based medicine. "We
realized that if you really want evidence-based practice you need to not
only inform the professionals, but you need to inform patients," Dr.
O'Connor says."