Nov 17, 1934Chicago, Illinois, United StatesDied on 13 May 2015 (aged 80)
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About David Sackett
David Lawrence Sackett, (November 17, 1934 – May 13, 2015) was an American-Canadian physician and a pioneer in evidence-based medicine.
He is known as one of the fathers of Evidence-Based Medicine.
He founded the first department of clinical epidemiology in Canada at McMaster University, and the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine.
He is well known for his textbooks Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine. One of his more famous quotes is: "Half of what you learn in medical school is dead wrong"