Clinical Conversations

August 23rd, 2018

Podcast 224: What’s a “preprint server,” and how might it change how we think about journals?

Rohan Khera wrote an editorial in The BMJ to accompany his own paper on guidelines for hypertension treatment. In it, he wrote, not about his research, but about the way biomedical articles are published now, and how preprint servers could change that. (In essence, pre-print servers are online repositories of rough drafts of research available […]

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August 16th, 2017

Podcast 210: Jerome Kassirer — an editor looks back

Dr. Jerome P. Kassirer served as editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine from 1991 to 1999. Almost 20 years later, Kassirer looks back on his life and his time as editor in a new autobiography, titled “Unanticipated Outcomes” — and in a conversation with us. Links: Kassirer editorial on managed care. Kassirer on the digital transformation […]

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