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At the end of this month, I will be leaving the Journal after 21 years as an editor. I began in 1979 as assistant deputy editor, became executive editor in 1988, and became editor-in-chief last year. It has been an extraordinary experience.

I have had the opportunity to witness from a front-row seat the unfolding of some of the most spectacular advances in medicine and to shape the recording of many of them. I have seen the system for financing and delivering medical care undergo a series of cataclysmic upheavals and realignments, many of which were played out in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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