Earlier this week the Massachusetts Medical Society, owner of the New England Journal of Medicine, announced that Jerome P Kassirer, the editor, would be leaving. His tenure will end in eight months, but he will start a seven month sabbatical at the beginning of September. The Boston Globe, which broke the story, reported that Kassirer had been fired. The society denied this and said his contract was simply not being renewed. His precipitous departure, seven months after the firing of George Lundberg, editor of JAMA, is likely to cause another round of soul searching over balancing editorial independence and accountability.
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机译：本周早些时候，《新英格兰医学杂志》的所有者马萨诸塞州医学会宣布，编辑杰罗姆·卡西尔（Jerome P Kassirer）将离开。他的任期将在八个月内结束，但他将从9月初开始七个月的公休日。打破故事的《波士顿环球报》报道说，卡西尔被解雇了。社团否认了这一点，并说他的合同根本没有续签。在JAMA编辑乔治·伦德伯格（George Lundberg）被解雇七个月后，他的突然离职很可能引起另一轮反省，以平衡编辑的独立性和问责制。
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