TY  - JOUR
T1  - PHysicians and journalists
AU  - Robinson-Haynes E
Y1  - 1989/03/03
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1989.03420090044026
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1280
EP  - 1280
VL  - 261
IS  - 9
N2  - To the Editor. — 
    As a medical writer for a large California newspaper I was most disappointed to read the report in the Aug 8 issue of The Journal about the Case Western Reserve conference on journalism and ethics, at which the journalists apparently agreed that training researchers to deal with the media was a bad idea.1In the course of interviewing hundreds of medical clinicians and researchers, I occasionally have found one who understands what reporters need. More often I find them ignorant of our methods and, as a consequence, afraid of encounters with us.To suggest, as my colleagues apparently did, that training physicians to deal with journalists will create a group of media-savvy physicians who would manipulate the media is absurd. There is already such a group actively doing just that. There is a much larger and growing group of physicians who refuse to take media
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1989.03420090044026
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1989.03420090044026
ER  -