Students Say Dean Copied Speech

Medical students at the University of Alberta were thrilled with the speech their dean, Philip Baker, gave at a convocation banquet Friday -- at least until they found the speech online and apparently written by someone else, CBC News reported. A few phrases in the speech prompted students to do Internet searches and they say they found a nearly identical speech by Atul Gawande, a surgeon who spoke to Stanford University medical students last year. Gawande's speech was subsequently republished in The New Yorker and students said that one of the few changes made by Baker was leaving out a few lines about the U.S. Medicare system. Baker has not commented.