BMJ 1999;319:273 ( 31 July )

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Editor of New England Journal of Medicine departs

Scott Gottlieb , New York
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The editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine has left his job in a dispute over plans by the journal's publisher to use the journal's name and logo to launch a range of other medical publications that would be only nominally controlled by the journal's top editor.

Dr Jerome Kassirer, the journal's editor in chief of eight years, agreed to step down because of his opposition to plans by the Massachusetts Medical Society, which publishes the medical journal, to launch a family of consumer oriented and specialty specific medical journals.

Dr Kassirer had already stoked the medical society's ire by resisting earlier attempts to use the journal's name to sell its newer publications, including two consumer newsletters, as well as several publications written for doctors.

His tenure will not officially end for eight months, but Dr Kassirer will take a seven month sabbatical beginning 1 September, and the . . . [Full text of this article]
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