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Fact or Fiction?

Renee Twombly

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TO THE EDITOR:
It seems amazing that Annals would publish “The Breakthrough” [1], which decries hype when the piece itself is pure fiction. The author, Dr. David Pisetsky, is not a cardiologist and has never reported a medical breakthrough in Heart. There is no public information officer named Jennifer Richman, nor, I suspect, a patient named Roy Carver. The story was just that—a story, not real.
The problem is that, at the end of the piece, Dr. Pisetsky identifies himself correctly, as a physician at Duke University Medical Center. His fictionalized account of “public relations” swirls around a hospital called “University Medical Center,” which, to readers who have contacted our office, and to most others, I believe, sounds suspiciously like Duke.
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Twombly R. Fact or Fiction?. Ann Intern Med. 1996;124:1016–1017. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-124-11-199606010-00019

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 1996;124(11):1016-1017.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-124-11-199606010-00019

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