Here's yet another take on pharma gifts to doctors, from The Washington Post this time: These Gifts are Bad for Our Health. ...

From Electric News: Surgeons in a spat: Those in private practice upset over proposal to keep a log of the number of operations they perform. A snip...

This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey : ...

It looks like the University of Toronto is doing just what we want to do at Medical Meetings' Web site: Create e-accessible tools for "knowledge translation programs," which I'd just call CME for our purposes. Here's a link to the page. (Thanks to...

From the Alliance for CME's listserv...

From Sunday's Boston Globe (this one is in the paid archives): Hospitals Study When to Apologize to Patients...

From the Boston Globe (should be free access for a few days): MGH seeks to bridge healthcare's racial gap...

According to a press release...

Some interesting reading from Pharma Marketing News: Compliance with (Some) CME Rules Not So Easy (it's on page 2 of the pdf). Not to be snarky, but, duh. It says, from the pharma perspective, disclosure and resolution of conflicts of interest are...

Frederic S. Wilson, Category Manager CME, with a Research-based Pharmaceutical Manufacturer, left this rebuttal in the comments to this post about a very negative view of the CME-pharma connection. I have his permission to post it again here, in...