UD takes this typically dull sentence from a book written by committee and full of dull sentences.
Unfortunately, the book is extremely important, making the case, as it does, that conflict of interest in academic and non-academic medicine is an immense national scandal.
This being University Diaries, UD pays attention only to that small part of the scandal that involves universities with medical schools. But there’s so much more, and this book covers it all. Dully.
Conflict of Interest in Medical Research, Education, and Practice (note titillating title), published by National Academies Press, may be bought, downloaded, skimmed online … mainlined via hypodermic… what I mean is, there are many, many ways to read this book. Is what I’m trying to get across.
An option that doesn’t exist is reading its important and even dramatic material in a way that doesn’t make you bitter about how old you’re getting. (Though this might just be me.)