Another book on evidence-based medicine in primary care! I wonder why? The ostensible reason is found on the first page of chapter 1: “to catalyse primary care staff into considering, and hopefully adopting, this approach. …” So this book has been designed to get those of us in general practice to DO the evidence thing. No. The real reason that this book has been written is found in the section called, rather mysteriously (especially to those of us less than intimately acquainted with the British National Health Service), “Evidence-based primary care commissioning and prescribing” that has yet to cross the Atlantic (let alone the Pacific!). Commissioning refers to the placing of health budgeting in the hands of those working in primary care in the UK. The enormity of this revolution has left the rest of us in the world breathless. …