… “It is self-evidently absurd to look to a company for information about a product it makes,” Dr. Marcia Angell of Harvard Medical School and former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, said in a telephone interview.
“Why can’t doctors, who are among the most privileged members of society, pay for their own continuing medical education?” Angell said. “Why have they abdicated that responsibility to the companies who make drugs?”
Reuters updates us on the continuing scandal of Continuing Medical Education.
February 8th, 2009 at 6:58PM
Especially since doctors routinely deduct trips to seminars and educational experiences in, say, Acapulco, the Bahamas, etc.
I’ve always regretted that I didn’t choose history of Curacao as my field. Would have made for more pleasant tax-deductible archival expeditions.
February 9th, 2009 at 11:12AM
Or you could be like the late Stephen J. Gould. He knew how to pick a research project. His field studies were concentrated on mollusk and snail fossils found in Bermuda.
[The Bonzos love Bermuda, but have to do it on their own dime. If you know how, it isn’t THAT expensive…]
Speaking of natural history, in three days it will be Darwin’s birthday…