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By George D. Lundberg, with James Stacey. 371 pp. New York, Basic Books, 2001. $26. ISBN 0-465-04291-0.

All editors of medical journals are expendable. But the fall, when it comes, is frequently painful and unexpected. Not so for George Lundberg, editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) for 17 years: he knew that his sacking in 1999 was inevitable. He had upset too many people for too long a time, and he had courted controversy once too often. His editorial strategy, he has said, was "to deliberately give [readers] something to complain about." Lundberg's wish to tell the truth — in his words, "no matter how embarrassing, insulting, or offensive" — had eroded the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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