>Taking your medicine: the politics of north and south
For Gov. Chris Christie, deciding to merge Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the School of Public Health, and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey into Rutgers University to give the state’s flagship university its own medical school was the easy decision.
Understandably, officials at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) and their allies in Newark and Essex County were not happy about Christie’s quick – although not unexpected — decision. It took away three of UMDNJ’s major schools in order to immediately implement the merger recommendation of his UMDNJ Advisory Committee. (Magyar, NJ Spotlight)
