Acting editor of CMAJ quits

Update from the Journal Oversight Committee of CMAJ - March 2 '06

Update to these articles 1 & 2 : Acting Editor Stephen Choi quites CMAJ - CTV reports

Looks like the Canadian Medical Association has been busy purusing the internet and the blogosphere before Dr. Choi quit. They were busy looking up my posts on the CMAJ firing here, here, here, and here, through their investment company called MD Financial , a CMA subsidiary (you can connect to the CMA at the bottom of MD Financial's website).

As MD Financial says:

"For over thirty-five years MD Financial Group™ has successfully delivered to the investment needs of more Canadian physicians and their families than any other organization in Canada."

A little afraid of freedom of speech are they because it will affect their investments? Ahhh...

Oh yeah...I wonder if that new "study" that the CMA put out on palliative care patients not wanting to die in their homes was ...um...er...structured to "indicate" the opposite so as not to disrupt their investments? Update: I read this report and the above info about patients not wanting palliative care at home was not even acknowledged in it. I got the information from a CTV news report on last night's news. I will post what the report does say in another post.

And another thing...here is the letter from Graham Morris, President of the CMA's letter explaining the firing of Dr. Hoey. In ending it, dryly, he states amongst continuing on with Dr. Hoey's foundation, he says that the new editor will be hired in response their readers needs.

Should we read between the lines on that one and insert "investments" for "needs"? Some of those investments wouldn't happen to be in the pharmaceutical industry would it?