{"id":835,"date":"2015-05-22T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/?p=835"},"modified":"2025-04-24T18:35:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:35:52","slug":"dr-david-sackett-medical-research-pioneer-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/?p=835","title":{"rendered":"Dr David Sackett, medical research pioneer, dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/sackett-david-lawrence-1934-2015-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-836\" style=\"width:250px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/sackett-david-lawrence-1934-2015-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/sackett-david-lawrence-1934-2015-1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr David Lawrence Sackett (1934\u20132015)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sackettfamily.info\/g4\/p4546.htm#i136371\">Dr David Sackett<\/a>, a pioneer of evidence-based medicine, has died aged 80 in Ontario, Canada, on 13 May 2015.<br>Amongst Dr Sackett&#8217;s achievements was his proof, through clinical trials, of the value of taking aspirin in preventing heart attacks and strokes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr David Sackett, a pioneer of evidence-based medicine, has died aged 80 in Ontario, Canada, on 13 May 2015.Amongst Dr&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}