Medical conferences are supposed to provide continuing medical education, so that doctors can remain up to date with what's happening in the world of medicine. One of the popular formats in these conferences is the panel discussion, where the moderator presents cases and asks the panelists, who are usually experienced doctors, to provide their opinion about how they would manage this particular case. Now, these cases are meant to be clinically useful , because they provide the doctor with actionable information.
Ideally, these are real-life patients who have had the kind of problems which doctors need to deal with in their daily practice. When an expert panel discusses how they would deal with this particular problem, doctors can use the same methods when they treat their own patients. Sadly, most of these panels are populated by the friends of the organising secretary of the…
