Tommy wrote:

> Something that is interesting about the science and medical field
> especially in the academic departments is the publish or perish
> clause. Many things that are published is just to "save their job"
> and are really useless.

The "publish or perish" phenomena is more applicable to the physical,
biological, and chemical sciences and not really applicable to the
medical sciences.

You would be surprised at the amount of medical (bench and clinical)
research that is done that never finds it's way to a paper or that
takes several years (3, 4, even 5 years) between data acquisition and
paper submission.

Quite a bit of medical research is, naturally, conducted by MD's who
usually have clinical responsibilities and thus are really not in a
position to "perish" if they don't "publish".