October 1, 1999

Medical Journals Will Truly Thrive Only if the Editors Have Tenure

By GEORGE D. LUNDBERG and PATRICIA LORIMER LUNDBERG

On a Sunday morning late in July, Larry Tye, a reporter at The Boston Globe, called. What did George think of the expected firing the next day of Jerome P. Kassirer, the long-time editor of the renowned The New England Journal of Medicine?

At first, we wondered if the call was a joke. Surely the Massachusetts Medical Society, owner of The New England Journal, had not forgotten the public outcry about editorial integrity at The Journal of the American Medical

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