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James F. Toole, MD

Arch Neurol. 2000;57:55.

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Only the foolhardy would hazard a guess as to what type of stroke research will be cutting edge during the first 50 years of "Y2K"! For example, who at the initiation of the past 50 years anticipated that aspirin, rat poison, or surgery could prevent some strokes, that ultrasonographic techniques developed for submarine detection would be adapted for human imaging, or that such innovative diagnostic tools as computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging would be developed and in routine use by the end of the century?

Realizing this lack of prescience, only an egotistical and/or dementing oldster would be so foolish as to publish predictions, very likely to be wrong, for future neurologists to scoff at and, perhaps, ridicule. However, temptation exceeds caution, and so I do, but only after reminding those who became neurologists after the 1950s that we seniors in the field had no . . . [Full Text of this Article]

From the Stroke Research Center, Department of Neurology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.

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