Unhealthy Competition

To separate their identities, The Medical Post and Family Practice are going under the knife. Now that both are owned by Maclean Hunter, what's their motivation to stay in fighting form?

When Medical Post staff writer Pippa Wysong called Dr. Vivian Rakoff’s secretary last August to try to talk to him about his controversial psychiatric profile of Lucien Bouchard, her editor didn’t actually expect Rakoff to cooperate. After all, dozens of reporters were desperate to talk to the high-profile psychiatrist. Surprisingly, Rakoff’s secretary called back, saying he wouldn’t […]