Same Time Next Year?

I just returned from Pharmaceutical Executive's 4th Annual MedEd Forum where I spent two and a half days interacting with the same people I saw at the American Medical Association National Task Force on CME Provider/Industry Collaboration meeting two months earlier. I found the backroom buzz and the break-time conversations quite intriguing, and the most common question that I heard was: Why does the same group of us continue to attend meetings at which the same information is being