This quote will ring a salient bell with many of us; the busier we are, the less effectively we read and the less likely we are to remember what we have read unless it becomes a routine part of our lives. Hence, despite our best intentionswhenwesit downwith a medical book meaning to enhance our knowledge on a subject, the chances are that we will skip bits or skim read and then still find ourselves a few weeks later saying ‘I’m sure I read something about that’. Sound familiar?