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Dear James, I am not sure if I understand your video, but if I do then it's a pretty blistering video for evidence based healthcare. I practice medicine in Africa and I enjoy using evidence based guidelines as are many of my colleagues. The WHO has worked with ministries of health to develop evidence based guidelines for treatment of malaria based on regularly updated reviews done mostly by Liverpool school of Trop Med with African authors. This has been very helpful in curbing the malaria scourge. I understand that in the cozy world of medical practice in Europe or America you have access and time to dig into raw evidence and make a decision. For us out here - this morning I already have a line of over 70 patients to consult, there are 43 more admitted that I have to dos rounds on, I can only access the Cochrane library (which thanks to Cochrane is free to African servers) when I am able to pay the high internet data bundles, we don't have libraries or librarians to help us with search, we don't have opportunities for CME (unless we travel abroad). So yes we need guidelines (which have become increasingly evidence based). What your video suggests is not equitable - guidelines will help bridge this equity gap faster or at least for now. It's a more cost effective way to catch up. Maybe I didn't understand your video? Warm greetings from Cameroon! Okwen Na Mbah ye iPhone sendam. > On 30 Apr 2016, at 18:43, McCormack, James <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hi Everyone: > > As many of you know I have fun creating educational musical parodies about "evidencey" stuff and I just released one on clinical practice guidelines using the great song, End of the Line - redone to be End of Guidelines. > > Would love it if you would check it out. > > The link to the video is here > > https://youtu.be/DHDnqQ_mCBA > > James McCormack, BSc(Pharm), Pharm D > Professor > Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences > UBC, Vancouver, Canada > Co-host - Best Science (BS) Medicine Podcast > > therapeuticseducation.org > > 604-603-7898