I enjoyed the articles about the distinguished author AJ Cronin in the September issue.1–2 However, in these days of concerns about how we treat whistle-blowers, an important and telling piece of information was omitted by both authors.
By writing about the ‘humbug’ of private medicine in the 1930s, Dr Cronin became persona non grata to a significant swathe of the medical establishment. When he died in 1981, 44 years after the publication of The Citadel, his obituary in the Lancet consisted of one line.
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