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A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction

A Canadian journal has issued corrections on 138 case reports it published over the last 25 years to add a disclaimer: The cases described are fictional. Paediatrics & Child Health, the journal of the Canadian Paediatric Society, has published the cases since 2000 in articles for a series for its Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program. The…

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]]>https://isurg.org/topic/d5587598-94b1-481f-8455-c0e6007f220c/a-medical-journal-says-the-case-reports-it-has-published-for-25-years-are-in-fact-fictionRSS for NodeThu, 16 Apr 2026 04:16:08 GMTWed, 04 Mar 2026 19:10:57 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction on Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:37:27 GMT]]>These reports are published in places like pubmed with no indication they are fiction, and many have been cited as fact.

]]>https://isurg.org/post/https://mander.xyz/comment/25668652https://isurg.org/post/https://mander.xyz/comment/25668652Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:37:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction on Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:20:04 GMT]]>Kind of misleading??

You even admit they don't make clear to readers these are fictionalized case studies, and the one study was outright misinformation.

So where do you draw the line?

Smh

]]>https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.cafe/comment/16208645https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.cafe/comment/16208645Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:20:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction on Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:45:43 GMT]]>This is kind of misleading, because the "journal" was specifically requesting fictionalized case studies for teaching purposes. This was made clear to authors, but perhaps not always to readers. This is pretty common and well known in medical literature, as a way to protect patient privacy, and is usually separated from more "hard case studies," though it seems that this is not always clear in some contexts.

The issue here is that one of the stories was actually just entirely misinformation (about opiates and breastfeeding) rather than a fictionalized version of a real case. So the "fictionalized" case study journal is publishing clarification that the stories are embellished. The bigger note is that they didn't actually do a full retraction of that actually bad paper, but seem to be "reminding" people that their case studies are fictionalized as a CYA move.

]]>https://isurg.org/post/https://piefed.social/comment/10393644https://isurg.org/post/https://piefed.social/comment/10393644Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:45:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction on Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:29:09 GMT]]>Sadly 'should' and 'reality' are in a bitter divorce in our timeline because far too many people cannot distinguishing between reality and the chemicals floating about in their head making them believe impossible things.

]]>https://isurg.org/post/https://piefed.social/comment/10393438https://isurg.org/post/https://piefed.social/comment/10393438Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:29:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction on Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:02:29 GMT]]>

The move came as a surprise to David Juurlink, professor of medicine and pediatrics at the University of Toronto, who has spent over a decade looking into the claim that infants can receive a meaningful or even lethal dose of opioids via breast milk when their mothers take acetaminophen with codeine.

“Case report” rather implies it is not a work of fiction.

]]>https://isurg.org/post/https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/24314423https://isurg.org/post/https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/24314423Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:02:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction on Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:41:10 GMT]]>These authors should be stripped of their medical licenses and charged with fraud

]]>https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/22478400https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/22478400Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:41:10 GMT