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An allergist I know told me that the New England Journal of Medicine once offered a lifetime subscription for $500. For context, the annual price right now $159
by niels_olson 17y ago
An allergist I know told me that the New England Journal of Medicine once offered a lifetime subscription for $500. For context, the annual price right now $159. Among medical journals, that's cheap. $500 for a lifetime subscription would be unfathomable. Only problem was that in the mid 1980s, medical residents just didn't have $500 to cough up (well, about 75% of their parents might have, but that's another story).