Abstract
To Editor.— I am impelled to comment on extensive report in MEDICAL NEWS 1 concerning latest in an unfortunately growing body of literature on fraud in medical research. Each episode is, of course, in itself disturbing. But there is one aspect of each episode that I find particularly troubling and about which I have seen no previous comment. I refer to actual fate of protagonist. In this latest instance, he is now in a second residency program... retraining as a critical care specialist. Elsewhere in article, his is described as the harshest penalty federal government has ever imposed on a researcher for falsifying data. The relegation of a disgraced physician-investigator to practice of medicine has become norm in what JAMA article calls the expanding annals of scientific fraud. It seems to me that punishment is entirely inappropriate. I have
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