Yale's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity offers several resources for communicating with patients about obesity without harming.
Difficult Conversations in Medicine, edited by Elisabeth Macdonald, is a collection of essays about effective communication between health care professionals, patients, and families. Topics range from legal and ethical issues, to planning for such conversations, apologies, strong emotions and cross-cultural issues. Dr. Macdonald is a Consultant Clinical Oncologist from London, and writes in the context of the NHS and , and mostly from the point of view of physicians but will also be useful to other healthcare professionals. Finally, there is an appendix of transcriptions of illustrative conversations in order to see how others have approached them. A review of this book is available in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. You can find this book on the shelves at the library at W 62 D569 2004.
Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients by Talmadge King provides coverage of topics such as navigating language barriers, behavorial change, promoting adherence, and group medical visits. 
The Medical Librarian of Laika's MedLibLog describes some of the pitfalls of using Wikipedia for Medical Information. Type just about any topic into Google and a Wikipedia entry will come up, and Laika discusses some indications that doctors use Wikipedia to get medical information. Although some entries are actually written by experts, anyone can write an article, and even more importantly, anyone can edit an article. Wikipedia bills itself as the "Free Encyclopedia" but is much more fluid than a standard encyclopedia. It's not that accurate information can't be found in Wikipedia, but that the potential for altering that information is very high.
MDLinx is a journal article summary service that aggregates articles and research from more than 1,200 peer-reviewed journals and leading news media on a daily basis. Physician editors sort this content into 32 medical specialty sites, 36 patient sites, and more than 743 subspecialty sections, all available online. 
AAIM offers resources on Residents-As-Teachers of Medical Students and each other, covering topics such as bedside teaching, oral presentation, and writing progress notes, from an Internal Medicine background. 
The PA Dept of Health has a new website with information on H1N1 Influenza, H1N1inpa.com.
The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute has several free applications available for PDA's:
High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents--for Palm OS and PocketPC
JNC 7 (High Blood Pressure Guidelines) Application--for Palm OS and PocketPC
Act in Time to Heart Attack Signs--Physician Quick Reference Tool--for Palm OS
BMI Calculator--for Palm OS and PocketPC
OEI Treatment Guidelines Implementation Tool--for Palm OS and PocketPC
ATP III Cholesterol Guidelines --for Palm OS
Other PDA download posts:
Mobile Merck Medicus
Immunization Schedules
Get Dynamed on your PDA
End of Life Care Fast Facts
Summaries take the best of the 3 previous layers(studies, syntheses, and synopses) and integrates them so you get multiple aspects of diagnosis and treatment in an easy to use format, rather than one aspect of management. The best summaries explicitly discuss the editorial process and rating of evidence, where the info came from, list references, and date of most recent updates, and are updated frequently enough to incorporate the newest evidence.
The Library subscribes to one summary resource, also known as a "point of care tool":
UptoDate.
Our newest addition to the book collection is A Practical Guide to Palliative Care by Jerry L. Old and Daniel L. Swagerty(2007). For a review, check out this article in JAMA.
Studies have shown that effective doctor patient communications are strong predictors of health outcomes. Communication skills are, therefore, critically important to health and healing in the acute and chronic care of patients. 
Patient Brochure(English - SpanishFrench- ChineseRussian - Arabic)
Ask Me 3 ProgramImplementation Guide(English)
PURLs are from studies selected and evaluated using Family Physicians Inquiries Network(FPIN)’s PURL Surveillance System methodology, and published in Journal of Family Practice.
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Click on the Clinical Queries link on the left side of the screen when you are in PubMed in order to access search filters for Evidence Based Medicine. If you want to know the published evidence for a particular therapy, or diagnostic method, these filters will help narrow down the search.
One of my favorite limits is the "title" tag. If you imagine what title a great article would have, those keywords can help you hone in on relevant hits. This is particularly helpful when thousands of hits come up in an unlimited search. Some useful terms include "current concepts," "update," "practical"(or in combination with "approach," "strategies," or "management").
Click the limits tab on the PubMed homepage.
Scroll to the bottom of the limits page and under "Tag Terms" choose "title."
Type your search terms into the search box at the top of the page.
All the articles that come up will have those words in the title.
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PubMed Quick Tip #1: Free Full Text
PubMed Quick Tip #3: Clinical Queries for Evidence Based Medicine
Under the limits tab, is a checkbox for "Links to Free Full Text." If you have this checked, all topics you search will provide free articles. Or type in your topic AND free full text[sb] in the search box if you want to search directly from there.
The Montgomery Hospital Auxiliary generously donated the new edition of Cecil Medicine to the Medical Library.
Cecil's is one of the essential texts of Internal Medicine--by well respected editors, it has been in publication over 75 years. Each chapter indicates which management recommendations are supported by Grade A clinical evidence.
Lots of useful charts, color photos, and color coded sections for easy browsing.
Find it in the Ready Reference section, by the animal crackers, classification/call number WB 100 C38888 2008.
I have been giving links to different sources of information, and that can be a good thing(as a librarian I tend to think this!), but there is also the challenge of information overload.Remember that I am available for questions you might have, which is another way to deal with information overload.
The English-Spanish Dictionary of Health Related Terms has
2. Interlibrary Loan NOTE due to closure of the library interlibrary loan is not available.
3. Google: Sometimes, if you are fortunate, a publisher will post an article in free full text to the web, perhaps because of the public health implications, or just because they feel like it.
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