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I wanted to respond to the commentary by Alpert and colleagues¹ in the March 25, 2002, issue of the ARCHIVES.

About a year ago I was a practicing internist/geriatrician at a major academic medical center in New York City. I changed careers and am now a medical director in the pharmaceutical industry. The decision to move to industry was a difficult one, but one that I am very happy I ultimately made. Unfortunately, to some of my former coworkers in academia, I have become a pariah.

In the past year I have become painfully aware of the demands that academia places on industry. In my job-related travels, once someone I meet realizes I work for industry, it is not at all unusual to subsequently be asked to provide funding for myriad projects. It is quite amazing to me how academia frowns upon industry but is quite receptive to its money.

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