BMJ  2005;330:362 (12 February), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7487.362

Letter

Academic medicine: who is it for?

Medical profession needs to care about academic medicine and promote it

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

EDITOR—The medical profession and society are at loggerheads because they mistrust each other as a result of increasing adverse effects from the concepts, drugs, and amenities advocated and promoted by business oriented biotechnologies and industry; these promotions have been blindly used and accepted by the serving profession for various reasons, including financial gains. This has led to the BMJ's long overdue campaign to promote academic medicine.¹ It needs the participation of honest and knowledgeable people to regain trust.

The general media have a significant role. Now degraded moral values that have led to an unhealthy link between business and the serving profession to convert laboratory results into clinical utility have legal implications. This has happened at the cost of academic medicine and its advocates because of the serving profession, society, and governments the world over.² Developments are few but are highly glorified, resulting in many rude shocks, . . . [Full text of this article]

Hubli, 580021, Ka, India htgangal@sancharnet.in

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