Highly variable in indivuduals subjects, though.  I've known one or two docs
who were SO good at it: if they said it might have been in NEJM, oh, maybe
the winter of 1981 - by god, it'll BE in NEJM in January, 1981!  (One of
them told me he could always picture what house he was living in when he
read a memorable article, and he moved a lot for some years, so that key was
pretty darn precise.)  Others are so hopeless I don't pay any attention and
search it from scratch.  Maybe it's one of those gene things: you either got
it, or ya don't.  :-)

On 2/12/07, Jerry Carlson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I call it "Medical Memory Syndrome" - doctors have such great memories,
> they can remember an article they read two years ago as if it were just
> last year.  &8-{)
>
> Date:    Fri, 9 Feb 2007 21:15:30 -0500
> From:    Lee Hover <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: question
>
> I'm always suspicious when told it was 3 mos ago in NEJM (or somesuch);
> it
> usually turns out to be in JAMA years ago--but we've all been through
> that.
>
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