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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...
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...
...will have to painfully grope our way toward a health care system that will be worthy of our aspirations," Relman said...