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#NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE CAREER PROFESSIONAL#

The advertising will be eminently ethical and only those houses will be represented whose products have gained the confidence of the physician. The hope is expressed that through the suggestions made in these pages, the physician may be shown methods by means of which he can increase his compensation in a strictly ethical manner, collect the greater part of his earnings, and invest the surplus in such a way as to give him the best returns commensurate with safety.Ĭontributions along these practical lines are solicited from members of the medical professionals.

#NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE CAREER PROFESSIONAL#

It is the hope of the progenitors of Medical Economics to present to the physician each month a journal, whose contents will materially aid the practitioner in the conduct of his professional and business affairs. In addition to these general topics for discussion, there will be several pages of editorial manner and several pages devoted to new instruments and appliances with proper cuts and descriptive matter. The table of contents published on another page is fairly indicative of what the reader may expect.

It is planned to publish a well-balanced journal with from six to 10 articles each month, in which shall be filled with practical facts, each one written by a specialist in his particular line.

The development and conduct of practice.

The subjects for consideration in Medical Economics will be divided into three groups, each of which will be subdivided as occasion demands. Professional matters as such, will not be discussed in these pages excepting incidentally and as they have a bearing on the purpose of our activities. Medical Economics is to provide the physician with a medium which will be devoted entirely to the business features of the medical profession and to the economic factors which obtrude themselves in the daily life of the physician. Again he may earn much, but for various reasons collect far less. The average practitioner has had no opportunity to acquire business experience because of that his reasoning is along scientific grooves and, as a result, although he may have a considerable income, he does not always make the best uses of a possible surplus. His training usually has been entirely along professional lines. We are republishing it in its entirety as part of our celebration of the brand's 100th anniversary.Ī physician is ordinarily regarded as an indifferent businessman, who in the race of life suffers economically because of his business ineptitude. In the Salutatory, Baketel lays out the mission of the magazine. Sheridan Baketel, M.D., the magazine's first editor and a professor of preventive medicine at the Long Island College of Medicine.

That first issue had eight articles, including a "Salutatory" by H. Editor's Note: Medical Economics published its first issue in October 1923.