Word: relman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other analysts approach the health care quandary from other perspectives. Dr. Arnold S. Relman, professor of medicine and editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, voices his concerns from the medical perspective...
...take the position that health care is based on what physicians do with patients," he says. Relman belongs to a group of 47 non-government health care professionals, representing "all different strata of American society," charged with informally advising the Task Force on preliminary drafts of their plan...
...been to listen to the various options that have been proposed by members of various work groups," Relman says. The function of the review group has been, he says, to "listen, ask questions, comment, criticize, agree, disagree...
...Although Relman acknowledges that he has no way of knowing whether or not his ideas are being incorporated, he continues to hope for a plan based on the furthering of medical advances. "Medical research and education are the taproots of any kind of healthy and growing health care system," he says...
Defenders of the publish-first route maintain that the peer-review system, introduced in England in 1665, is a crucial quality-control mechanism. "It avoids mistakes," declares Dr. Arnold Relman, editor of the N.E.J.M. "It minimizes the hype, exaggeration and biases and prevents the dissemination of premature and unwarranted conclusions. Short-circuiting that process is not a good idea...