Sanjiv Agarwala, MD, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, explains how community oncologists can navigate the rapid advancements in oncology with the help of In Practice. Learn how this innovative platform provides practical, unbiased, and easily accessible information designed for busy professionals.
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For community oncologists, and [from] having worked with them for a long time, they’ve always been looking for something that they can turn to to ask a question or to get some information that is practical and easy to use. And the one thing about the way the world is today in medicine is that we are bombarded with information.
You know, you open up your inbox and you have like 15 or 20 emails, some commercial, some non-commercial, and you have no idea as to which one is useful and which one is not. They don’t have time for that. And what you really want is information that is clear, informative, not biased, therefore believable. And I don’t mean that in a bad way, but there’s a lot of information out there. You never know what’s right.
And being able to turn to a resource like In Practice where you can just browse through it quickly and you have a nice format, which is very visual and easy to digest and understand – will go a long way. You know, if you’re a practicing oncologist, you’re looking for one or two resources that you can go to on a daily basis.
Now, you know, obviously, if you want some more in-depth stuff, you’ll go to like up to date or whatever and, you know, read the article on lung cancer or whatever it is. But you’ll do that when you have time. And there may be a reason to do that. But on a day-to-day basis, you know, you got a little bit of time before your first patient shows up and a little bit of time after your last patient leaves. And then, you know, you got to get back to other things.
So a resource that would help you get through your day and even in between patients, be able to like look at something quickly on your phone, your iPad, or of course your laptop computer, that’s key. And, you know, let’s face it, we’re all married to our phones, right? And for good reason, because who has time to go back to an office? And most community oncologists don’t have a sit-down office with a computer anymore.
You know, they’re seeing patients in a clinic and moving from room to room to room, and all they have with them is their phone to look at things. So having something that would be easy to look at on a smaller screen, that would be something that they would really value, I think.
