Who Has the Right to Teach?

Do you want an ophthalmologist using a piece of equipment to take out your cataracts after he or she has been to a conference supported by some company with a financial interest in people using its equipment? I don't," says Ruth M. Glotzer, MEd. Glotzer is director of the Office of Continuing Medical Education (CME) at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston and member of the board of directors of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research, a national nonprofit organization