JMRI Letter from the Editor: September 2025

September 1, 2025

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I live in Detroit, which used to be the center of automobile manufacturing. Many of the assembly line jobs have dried up over the last three decades. Either these jobs went overseas, transitioned to the south, or were replaced by robots. What remains is a nidus of factory jobs, but proportionately more engineering, programing and design positions. Because of this, a large quanta of executives from foreign automobile manufacturers and related companies spend some time here, and many of them live around my neighborhood.

I was at the local supermarket last Sunday, and there was a Japanese family behind me, in the check-out line. After loading my groceries onto the belt, I put the plastic divider behind these items to allow this family to start preparing their purchases for checkout after me. The Japanese family gave me an odd look. Perhaps it was my weekend shorts and t-shirt. Perhaps, the (more than usual) messiness of my hair. But I couldn’t help but think the etiquette of my placing the plastic divider seemed peculiar to them. Seinfeld (among many others) made quite a good living pointing out the eccentricities of many of our cultural norms.

A few years ago, I was interviewing an MSTP (MD/PhD) applicant. When he came into my office, I noticed the manufacturer’s tag was still on his jacket sleeve. My assumption was that he believed that the suit tag was like a Levi’s tag on the back of jeans and should be left there. Clearly, this was probably not only his first time wearing a suit, but the first time in his life he even considered wearing a suit. Rather than dinging him for this etiquette violation, I gave him extra points. It’s not where you are, it’s how far you’ve come.

Each year JMRI receives more and more appeals by authors for negative decisions. We look at and evaluate all of these carefully. Last week, I received one about a letter to the editor that was submitted. JMRI publishes very few of these letters and we feel they must provide a fundamental criticism of study design or more often data analysis. Since this letter focused, obliquely, on the foundation of a manuscript, we let it go. This rejection upset the letter writer and led to their appeal.

This appeal took me aback. I have been an editor for a total of nearly 30 years (about half of this for JMRI) and had never received an appeal about a letter to the editor. My first impression was this appeal was a violation of societal norms. But more likely the writer (and appealer) was a trainee, and they hadn’t yet learned the subtleties and oddities of many of our professional interactions. The secret canon. The rituals. The unusual cultural expectations. We laugh at Seinfeld (and even more so Curb Your Enthusiasm) since they bring a mirror to our face, and when unmasked, we can see the frequent idiocy of what we do. There are rules, there are norms, and what’s left is just cultural craziness. Craziness without a foundation.

Mark E. Schweitzer, MD

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