On February 20, 2006, when John Hoey, editor-in-chief of theCanadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), returned to theOttawa headquarters of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA)after a vacation, his journal was in excellent shape. It rankedas the fifth leading general medical journal in the world, andit received more than 100 original research papers per month,allowing the editors to be highly selective in what they published.It had nearly 70,000 subscribers — representing the morethan 85 percent of Canadian doctors who are CMA members. YetHoey's decade as editor would end abruptly that afternoon whenthe . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Dr. Shuchman is in the department of psychiatry at SUNY–Buffalo. Dr. Redelmeier is a professor of medicine at the University of Toronto, Toronto. Dr. Shuchman has written news articles for the CMAJ. Dr. Redelmeier is a member of the CMA, the CMAJ Editorial Board, and the Kassirer Committee on Editorial Autonomy of CMAJ. Both receive financial services from MD Management, a CMA subsidiary.
This article was published at www.nejm.org on March 15, 2006.
