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Phil Gunby

JAMA. 1986;255(11):1481.

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Four score and seven years ago this week, in the JAMA issue dated March 18, 1899, a medical news department was introduced. It consisted of slightly more than a page of one-paragraph items, and the editors turned to Europe for their Chicago news, quoting a French (Paris J Med) account of a professor's suspension by "the Faculty of Medicine at Chicago... on account of the raised scalpels of the 30 female students who attended his lectures. They accuse him of indelicate language and the remark that 'woman is nothing but a dyspeptic owl.' "¹

As the news section begins its 88th year with this issue of THE JOURNAL, many readers—while intellectually devouring everything preceding these editorials—may have noticed a change. Effective immediately, the news section at the front of THE JOURNAL will be labeled "MEDICAL NEWS AND PERSPECTIVES."

The reason for the addition of "Perspectives" to the title is that . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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