CACHE/ACEMC 2010, April 28-30, St. John’s NL

The 2010 Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Continuing Health Education will be held in St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador.  
Consider submitting an abstract; read more here:  http://tiny.cc/CACHE_call
The submission deadline is December 14, 2009.

Are doctors whippersnappers?

I just came across this delightful poem, published by Gilda Radner in the November 17, 1988 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine:
DOCTORS ARE WHIPPERSNAPPERS
Doctors are whippersnappers in ironed white coats
Who spy up your rectums and look down your throats
And press you and poke you with sterilized tools
And stab at solutions that pacify fools.
I [...]

Interview with Dr. David Sackett, pioneer in evidence-based medicine

Here is an interesting interview from the October 30 issue of The Globe and Mail:
Picard A. ‘When we began, we were almost pariahs’ : A research pioneer [Dr. Dave Sackett] tells André Picard about the battle for evidence-based medicine
Excerpts:  Dave Sackett, a professor emeritus at McMaster University in Hamilton, has been awarded the prestigious Gairdner [...]