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This year marks the 28th anniversary of my involvement as a medical journalist in television, the first 14 years part time, the last 14 full time as medical editor of ABC News. I here reflect on my experiences in this field, including the dramatic changes that have occurred in medicine and the media during the past quarter century and some of the issues that have emerged from the interplay between these two rapidly changing professions.

Lest you doubt the impact of the media in supplying the public with health information, consider the following results from a national poll of 2256 . . . [Full Text of this Article]

A Brief History

Increasing and Dramatic Interaction

The Problematic Origins of Medical News

The Critical and Controversial Role of Medical Journals

Peer Review

The Ingelfinger Rule

The News Embargo

The Reporting of Medical News

Conclusions

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Presented as the 108th Shattuck Lecture to the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Boston, May 9, 1998.

From ABC News, 175 Highland Ave., Needham, MA 02194, where reprint requests should be addressed to Dr. Johnson.

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