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Frederick Hecht, MD
Southwest Biomedical Research Institute Scottsdale, Ariz

JAMA. 1988;259(13):1946.

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To the Editor.

—In my senior year of medical school, one professor devoted an hour or so of each class to the matter of education beyond medical school; he recommended that each of us subscribe to a general medical journal from that point to the end of our days in medicine. We should not limit ourselves to reading within our areas of special interest, but rather we should keep informed generally in medicine. Among the general medical journals my professor mentioned were The Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, and JAMA. This was in 1960.

Not being a surgically decisive person, I chose not to select one of these diverse journals but to read all three, and have done so, missing nary a week, since my commencement in 1960. It is my impression that these general medical journals are like people. They have their ups and downs.

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