The same should hold for medical literature. I was only able to investigate current best practices for an intestinal problem my wife has because my company pays to get behind paywalls of publishers. Because of those articles I was able to identify the type of dysfunction my wife probably has, the most advised treatment and a drug that recently came back to the market after being banned for poor reasons for years. Granted, one of the doctors knew most of these things but the physician we had spoken to before really had not read literature in a long, long time. I understand this can be difficult given how busy they are, but at least make sure patients themselves are able to access such truly vital data.<p>Due to this literature I was even able to prevent the nurse from administering morphine which I suspected (it was indicated in literature) would have made the pain much worse. I asked him stick to antispasmodics and the attack (Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction) has never been so mild. It&#x27;s crazy if you think about it.