This document discusses mining literature and medical records using text mining techniques. It summarizes that text mining can be used to extract relevant information from large collections of scientific papers and medical records by using techniques like named entity recognition to identify concepts, information extraction to formalize stated facts, and analyzing co-mentioning of entities to find relationships. Challenges include the unstructured nature of medical records, differences between languages and formats, and privacy concerns when using patient health information. When applied carefully, text mining of literature and medical records can help identify new relationships and insights not captured in existing curated databases or help with medical research questions.