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A health or medical library is designed to assist physicians, health professionals, students, patients, consumers, medical researchers, and information specialists in finding health and scientific information to improve, update, assess, or evaluate health care.
A medical specialty is a branch of medical practice that is focused on a defined group of patients, diseases, skills, or philosophy. Examples include those branches of medicine that deal exclusively with children ( pediatrics ), cancer ( oncology ), laboratory medicine ( pathology ), or primary care ( family medicine ).
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As of 2018, there were over 985,000 practicing physicians in the United States. 90.6% have an MD degree, and 76% were educated in the United States. 64% were male. 82% were licensed in a medical specialty. 22% held active licenses in two or more states.
The National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM) is a museum in Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. [1] The museum was founded by U.S. Army Surgeon General William A. Hammond as the Army Medical Museum (AMM) in 1862; [2] it became the NMHM in 1989 and relocated to its present site at the Army's Forest Glen Annex in 2011. [3]
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Guardians of medical knowledge: the genesis of the Medical Library Association. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-8108-3470-7; Kronenfeld MR, Kronenfeld JJ. (2021). A History of Medical Libraries and Medical Librarianship: From John Shaw Billings to the Digital Era. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-5381-1881-8
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