Volume — EBM Humor - True!

Question: How do evidence-based dolphins make decisions?

Contents      

• newest Christmas Merriment from the BMJ
• Festive Medical Myths
• EBM Secret Truths Uncovered!!!
• A Field Guide to Experts!

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Chrismas 2009: Evidence-based Merriment — Professional Matters
12/7/09 Issue

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/339/dec07_1/b5098

Hoorah for the BMJ! Always something fun and thought-provoking for the holidays!

To access, copy the following into an internet search engine: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/337/dec17_2/a2769?ijkey=851a958851868b998f2533557846e624a72e2558

In the annual holiday issue of BMJ there is a dramatic find—the uncovering of our secret EBM movement. (Cult???) Did you all know that —

• There are 10 secret commandments (e.g., Commandment #4: Thou shalt neither publish nor read any case reports… Commandment #9: Mandatory retirement is required for all clinical experts within 10 days of their being declared experts).
• EBMers can be recognized by their socks (at least the Brit ones);
• Many, many more EBM secrets.

Sheri is now very excited to learn that she is a cult priestess. (Explains the sometimes wild jewelry.) If you would like some more holiday "EBM" and mirth go to — http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1496

Thanks to Dr. Ted Ganiats for the find, and happy 2003 from i Delfini!

Fun from the BMJ! A Field Guide to Experts

Oxman AD, Chalmers I, Liberati A.
A field guide to experts.
BMJ. 2004 Dec 18;329(7480):1460-3. PMID: 15604184

The "other half" responds (and one of our favorite EBM writers, by the way) —
Trisha Greenhalgh,
Professor of Primary Health Care
University College London

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/329/7480/1460#89613