- John Abramson: And there was this seminal moment, when I talked to my partner, my family practice partner... and said to him, "We can't even trust the New England Journal of Medicine or the Journal of the American Medical Association any more," and he looked at me as if I was having a psychotic break, as if I had said; The CIA put a bomb in my gas tank and if I don't blink five times the world's gonna blow up.