No more eyeball jugglers, please

The art on the cover of the April 17, 2001, issue of CMAJ is distasteful. A collage purports to show a white man in a doctor's jacket juggling eyeballs and clocks. This is supposed to refer to an article concerning the Manitoba Cataract Waiting List Program.1 This article does not mention anything about the technical aspects of cataract surgery. As far as I know, cataract surgery does not involve enucleation of the eye.

Rather than simple “art” showing dismembered body parts, I would prefer photographs of Canadian nature scenes, or a white cover with the table of contents on it, à la New England Journal of Medicine or The Lancet.