Ethical standards in peer review of surgical practice: Professionalism, pride, and prejudice

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Texas McGovern School of Medicine, Houston, Tex.
• ² Department of Cardiac Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pa.
• ³ Department of Cardiac Surgery at Huntington Health, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Pasadena, Calif.
• ⁴ Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Mich.
• ⁵ Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, St Petersburg, Fla.
• ⁶ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC. Electronic address: robert.m.sade@gmail.com.