Purpose of the General Medical Journal

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One of the anxieties most insistently voiced by the communications media is anxiety about communication. If we could only communicate — so runs the thread of argument — war would cease, disagreement would melt away, and people would be healthier. Doctors, to take a specific example, would practice better medicine if communication in medical journals were more adequate, and those who make this claim equate "more adequate" with "more practical," with "less esoteric" as a loud overtone.The idea that medical journals indulge in obscurantist pedantry is not new. "I live a great distance from the City of Boston, and . . .

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