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December 17, 2008

Michelle, a first-year neurology resident, hurries out of the ER having just seen her fifth patient. In the 15 minutes before noon conference, she needs to:

• Find the phone number to the EEG lab
• Look up guidelines for acute seizure treatment
• Recall the entry criteria for the local ongoing acute stroke trial for the patient in CT
• Return two pages
• Figure out where conference is today
• Page her senior resident to run the last two cases, before which . . .
• . . . she should really review the Epley maneuver and the differential for vertigo

Waiting on hold for the operator, she opens her email inbox to look for her seizure guidelines, sent to her by her attending just yesterday, only to find she has exceeded her inbox capacity and the attachment can't be opened. Still on hold, she pages her senior while looking at her watch with a sigh, wishing she had a copy of the lecture handouts on BPPV from two days ago.

If only information were more centralized!

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