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Volume 341:1310-1313 October 21, 1999 Number 17
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The Departure of Jerome P. Kassirer

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To the Editor: I have always been proud of the great succession of editors at the Journal — Garland, Ingelfinger, Relman, and Kassirer. Their distinguished leadership and integrity transformed a fine regional medical journal into a national and international one, making it the most prestigious and reliable publication in the world and the most sought one in which to be published.

The great movement in medicine in the past 25 years has been the ever-increasing influence of our business-oriented society in fractionating medical care into profit-making segments. Nonprofit hospitals have set up profit centers. Some doctors have become entrepreneurs. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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