Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: This article is written from my viewpoint as a professor of medicine at a large biomedical research institution, the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).This point of view is colored by my experience as a patient and a doctor, as well as by a lifetime climbing in the highest mountain regions in the world.But what has allowed me a uniquely useful perspective is that for the past 30 years I have been deputy editor either of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), or of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). 1 A physician-researcher is not appointed deputy editor at the two most prominent and largest general medical journals, both of which are owned by medical societies, by being a wild radical.In various ways I and my fellow medical editors are seen as representing the establishment.So consider this.Indirectly, the issue of money's influence on researchers and physicians has over the past two decades eased the departure of several of the editors in chief of our major medical journals.
Source: bepress Legal Repository
Author: Drummond Rennie
Language: English
Subfield: Issues, ethics and legal aspects
Field: Nursing
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2275273171