 |
 |
Congratulations to all the CARES planning team for a wonderful conference in Liverpool. Even as a long-time EBM-er I loved it - and here's my tribute song - it has to be the Blues of course!: The House for Realist "Fun" (With Apologies to the House of The Rising Sun) There is a house in Liv-er-pool It's known to Ray Paw-son And it's been the ruin of so much E-B-M And don't I know I'm one! My mother was "relative" (Don't know what that term means!) My father was positivist Written in his genes Now the only thing a realist needs Is a mid-range theory And the only time he's satisfied He comes across quite dreary Oh, tutors, tell your students Not to do what I have done The only Outcome there is misery Whatever the Mech-a-nis-m Well, I got one eye on the Programme The source of all my pains I'm goin' back to Liv-er-pool To break my C-MO chains Well, there is a house in Liv-er-pool It's known to Ray Paw-son And it's been the ruin of so much E-B-M And now I know I'm done! -- Dr Andrew Booth BA Dip Lib MSc PhD MCLIP Reader in Evidence Based Information Practice Health Economics and Decision Science School of Health & Related Research (ScHARR) University of Sheffield Regent Court 30 Regent Street Sheffield S1 4DA Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 0705 Fax:+44 (0) 114 272 4095 Email: [log in to unmask] http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/sections/ir/staff/booth http://scharrheds.blogspot.com/ Lead Author of Systematic Approaches to a Successful Literature Review, Sage Publishers, 2011. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~