October is National Medical Librarians Month!

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Join us in celebration and to recognize the contributions of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Library team who continue to provide research and information to our physicians, nurses, pharmacists, students, and other healthcare professionals across the Center and all our MSK locations.

This year’s theme, Make Better Decisions Faster: Consult Your Health Information Professional, focuses on how we deliver value by providing evidence-based research and published literature in support of patients’ treatments and outcomes.

If you have a story to share where a Library staff member has had a positive impact on your work, feel free to let me know. In addition, you can review our Services webpage to learn more about what we do.

Donna Gibson
Director, Library Services

New Database: MedOne Plastic Surgery 

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Thieme’s MedOne Plastic Surgery is a fully searchable database of over 180 e-books, 7 e-journals, step-by-step instructions for core procedures, cases with management and follow-up tips and thousands of images and surgical videos pertinent to the field of plastic surgery.
MedOne Plastic Surgery is also available through the library’s A-Z Database list.

How to Discuss End-of-Life Planning

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Dr. Alan Carver

Dr. Alan Carver. Photo by Richard DeWitt.

A Vox article on having conversations with loved ones about end-of-life planning features MSK’s Dr. Alan Carver.

Dr. Carver, a neurologist, emphasizes the importance of listening and not rushing these difficult conversations. Having end-of-life decision discussions starting when family members are healthy, and working with care teams when family members are ill, are strategies Dr. Carver recommends.

Learn more about having end-of-life conversations in this MSK feature.