In his editorial in JAMA
Internal Medicine, Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD stated his support for health sciences
librarians in the following quote.
""Medical
librarians are far more adept at navigating the entire canon of medical
knowledge than are physicians, but their skills have not been leveraged for
POCL. While a librarian on staff in every office or on every medical team may
be fanciful, a remote librarian service is not. In one study, a just-in-time
information consultation service was shown to deliver useful answers in less
than 15 minutes to clinicians’ real-world questions submitted via smartphone.8
Health care systems should consider investing in informaticians who search the
medical literature, patient records, and the system’s own “big data” to provide
answers to clinicians’ real-time inquiries."
You can find the article at http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1731959
