Marcia Angell is an American physician, author, and the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine.
16 Facts About Marcia Angell
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Marcia Angell is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Marcia Angell is a frequent contributor to both medical journals and the popular media on a wide range of topics, particularly medical ethics, health policy, the nature of medical evidence, the interface of medicine and the law, and end-of-life healthcare.
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Marcia Angell has written chapters in several books dealing with ethical issues in medicine and healthcare.
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Marcia Angell is a member of the Association of American Physicians, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Medical Society, and is a Master of the American College of Physicians.
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Marcia Angell is a fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal and is an outspoken critic of medical quackery and the promotion of alternative medicine.
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Marcia Angell joined the editorial staff of The New England Journal of Medicine in 1979.
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Marcia Angell became Executive Editor in 1988, and served as interim Editor-in-Chief from 1999 until June 2000.
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The NEJM is the oldest continuously published medical journal, and one of the most prestigious; Marcia Angell is the first woman to have served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal since it was founded in 1812.
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Marcia Angell agreed to serve as interim Editor-in-Chief until a permanent editor would be chosen.
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Marcia Angell reached an agreement with the society that the Editor-in-Chief would have authority over usage of the journal's name and logo, and that the journal's name would not be used on other products.
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Marcia Angell was a finalist for the permanent post of Editor-in-Chief, but withdrew as a candidate explaining she was retiring to write a book on alternative medicine.
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Marcia Angell has long been a critic of the US healthcare system.
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Marcia Angell is the author of The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It.
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Pharma withheld the bad news about its drugs and touted the positive results; Dr Marcia Angell ignores positive data that conflicts with her cherished theory and reports the negative results.
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Marcia Angell is a critic of the current categorization of alternative medicine.