Evidence Based Medicine is Less than 50 years old: born in Hamilton Ontario from an American doctor who made Canada home.

This is a slight update of my posting from 2019, inspired by the fact that the current federal administration of my country is throwing out Evidence Based Medicine as applied to protecting the health of persons in the United States. This is serious enough that six former Surgeons General of the United States have published an editorial in the Washington Post warning Americans of the danger this poses to their future health. (See Six Surgeons General: It's our duty to warn the nation about JFK Jr., October 7, 2025). How long have we been using Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)? Not as long as you may think, but we benefit from EBM, a concept that was helped along by an important American physician and educator, David Sackett MD.