Evidence-Based Practice
as If Your Life Depended On It

 

Dr. Leonard E. (Len) Gibbs was diagnosed with aggressive, metastatic prostate cancer in May, 2005, and died in June of 2008.  He dedicated the last three years of his life to sharing what he had learned about applying evidence-based practice to his own health and to the health of others. Learn more about how evidence-based practice can help save lives by reading Len’s letter (PDF) (MS Word).

Leonard E. Gibbs obituary.

About Prostate Cancer

Although the evidence here uses the example of prostate cancer, Len’s chief reason for writing the letter was to help readers to apply the process of evidence-based practice to more effectively work with their helping professional as a team member for their own care. The letter contains many links to aid in each step of the evidence-based process.

Our Purpose Here

We hope that this website will help others to avoid what has happened to our family.  We hope that by reading about the process of evidence-based practice you can help yourself and others whom you love and care about.  We ask that, if you find this website useful, you forward it to those whom you love and care about to help them, and that they do the same.  It is our greatest hope that someone will apply the process in Len's Letter (PDF) (MS Word) to discover a problem early enough, locate an effective treatment, or prevent a problem.  If anyone has such an experience because of what we have placed here, please let us know at www.caringbridge.org, visit, Len Gibbs.

Len's Letter (PDF) (MS Word)    Counter Arguments to Len's Letter (PDF) (MS Word)  

To learn more about Len and evidence-based practice, listen to this segment of The West Side, a Wisconsin Public Radio Program hosted by Mary Jo Wagner, recorded on January 31, 2006. The segment is saved as a Real Media file. You can download the Real Player for free.

         

Created: August 24, 2005

Last updated: November 21, 2008