Not knowing the medical field but being involved in research in technical fields before I can confirm the problem with the "HAVE to publish" phenomenon. I came

Not knowing the medical field but being involved in research in technical fields before I can confirm the problem with the "HAVE to publish" phenomenon. I came accross sooo much long but barren papers that it was a tiresome and most times fruitless excercise just to follow proper scentific methodology in terms of being informed of related works that I am actually glad I do not need to live in the academic reasearch world anymore (I still do in industrial settings, "improperly", tied to developments). I also hated that I had to make up a quota even if the research did not yield interesting enough (part) results yet, figuring out something that could go into a paper, for the sake of writing a paper alone, not for communicating new knowledge yet. Formality not content ruled. (I just hope other places/institutions/fields do it better)