WSJ or NEJM?

When I was in high school, my history teacher, Irv Soslow, required that every student read the New York Times each day and come prepared to talk about a given article and put it in some historical context.

Every medical student grows up reading the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), one of the three most prestigious medical journals in the world. Faculty strive to get their articles published there and scientists cite NEJM articles frequently to add credibility to their own publications.

Recently, healthcare innovation has gone mainstream and instead of reading about technology innovation first in the NEJM, doctors, patients and scientists read about it in the headlines of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). One of the cultural conflicts differentiating industry from academia is the notion of protect and patent in the former v publish or perish in the latter.