More clever than amusing, but if you want a powerful example of how
searching with MeSH can make a big difference, search Nursing Home
(unquoted) and show how the results are quite split between the concept you
intuitively expect (Nursing Homes) and its near-diametric opposite,
articles on home nursing.

On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 3:16 PM, Gray, Ryan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> It's interesting you mention Harry Potter. We just got in our copy of JAMA
> Internal Medicine and there is an article called "Harry Potter, Magic, and
> Medicine<https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29710078> by Arjun Gupta,
> MD. : V.178 #6 Pages 747- 748. It is an editorial about managing the
> expectations that patients have. The author argues that sometimes patients
> view the science of medicine as magic-like and have an unrealistic
> expectation of the outcome.
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> All the best,
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> Ryan
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> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re clever or amusing PubMed search examples
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> I've used Harry Potter references in the past as interesting PubMed search
> examples.  There are citations that show an increase in headaches in
> children after the latest book had come out (from reading too long).  There
> is also a citation about pediatric ER visits going down after the books
> were released.
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> Another fun PubMed search is for citations about Agatha Christie.  She
> trained to become a pharmacy technician so there are some articles that
> discuss how her training influenced her mystery novels.
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> Finally, an interesting search from the art world is to look up Vincent
> Van Gogh and digitalis toxicity.  There is some literature that discusses
> whether his use of digitalis might have contributed to using the color
> yellow in many of his paintings.
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> Ann
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> Ann Ferrari
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