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Office researchers motivated by lack of information

William Wadlington, M.D., FAAP, began doing office research 33 years ago because he could not find a text book describing his patients' diseases.

"I remember being baffled and searching the text books and asking colleagues about studies on these conditions," Dr. Wadlington said. "Most of the research came from hospitals with very acutely ill patients. Maybe less than 1 percent of the patients I would see in my office were that ill. So most of what happens in hospitals just doesn't apply in the office setting. It is as though if a disease didn't show up in the hospital, it wasn't researched at all."