© 2004 Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
EDITORIAL
Letters to the editor
"I read with interest.........": a sequel
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr John Mayberry
Editor, Leicester General Hospital, Gwendolen Road, Leicester LE5 4PW, UK; pmj@bmjgroup.com
Letters—an editor’s dilemma
Keywords: letters to the editor; plagiarism
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The Postgraduate Medical Journal often receives letters and comments which start with the phrase: "I read with interest ......".
Perhaps this interest has stimulated the author to write of his or her own experience or to submit original data, which would not normally survive the rigours of peer review. However, at times it is the editor or the reviewer that can say that he or she: "read with interest.....".
However, the interest arose not from the originality of the contribution or the insight of the author, but rather from the fact that the article contained large sections of text lifted from a different source with no reference to that source. This is plagiarism and sadly it has become a major issue in the submission of dissertations to universities and of original papers and reviews to academic journals. It is essentially theft of intellectual property and it
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