With a hat-tip to Lisa Williams, this month’s Atlantic Monthly Journal has the first article I’ve ever seen in a mainstream magazine on EBM. The author calls for a national clinical institute to supplant the NIH and AHCQ, and actually make pronouncements on what works, and try to get the medical profession and health care industry to follow it. I’m so knocked out by an article on this topic getting into a major non-health care journal, that it would churlish to point out that our British cousins have already got one.