Medicine is no longer a practice.

​​Medicine is no longer a practice.
It is a discipline of precision.

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Precision is not optional. Imprecision in language, diagnosis, and ethics has been normalized in a field where error carries irreversible consequences. The casual use of the term practitioner reflects this erosion of standards. The Journal of Diagnostic Medicine exists to correct that trajectory.

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This journal is founded on a single uncompromising principle:
Only what works and only what does not harm belongs in medicine.

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We reject diagnostic excess.
We reject incentivized harm.
We reject profit as a justification for pain.

Healthcare, as it is widely structured today, has drifted into its opposite.
Harm commerce.

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Systems that profit from a child’s chemotherapy, a grandmother’s radiation treatment, or prolonged suffering are not broken by accident. They are functioning exactly as designed. That design must end.

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Payment for healthcare is ethical.
Fair wages are ethical.
Cost plus models with reasonable compensation are ethical.

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Profiting from disease is not.

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The laws passed more than two decades ago that permitted profit driven healthcare distorted priorities, corrupted incentives, and normalized harm under the guise of care. This journal stands in direct opposition to that model.

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The Journal of Diagnostic Medicine will never charge for access.
It will never sell influence.
It will never exist to inflate résumés or generate citations for career advancement.

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This journal exists to reach people, not to gatekeep knowledge.
Our mission is not academic validation.
It is permanent change.

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We publish diagnostic methods that minimize harm. We elevate precision over volume. We amplify approaches that reduce pain, exposure, and unnecessary intervention.

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Healthcare, as currently delivered, too often produces fear, injury, and suffering in the name of efficiency and revenue. This reality must be named plainly if it is ever to be corrected.

This journal is not neutral.
Neutrality in the face of preventable harm is complicity.

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We stand for diagnostic integrity.
We stand for restraint.
We stand for children, elders, families, and patients who deserve better than a system that monetizes vulnerability.

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We share knowledge to help others.
That is it.
That is enough.

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If this journal succeeds, it will not be remembered for volume, metrics, or prestige. It will be remembered for helping medicine return to what it was always meant to be.

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We can do better.
We must do better.
It stops here.

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Editor in Chief
Anonymous by Design
Journal of Diagnostic Medicine

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