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Louis R. Caplan, MD

Arch Neurol. 2008;65(8):1017-1019.

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Beginning in 1900, Finley Peter Dunne, an American journalist and humorist, wrote a popular series of satirical observations and reflections attributed to an honest Irish American bartender Martin Dooley on social and political topics in the Chicago Journal. He also wrote books: Mr Dooley's Philosophy, Mr Dooley's Opinions, and Observations by Mr Dooley. With due apologies to Dunne, I herein use this technique to comment on a report in this issue of the Archives.¹

November 2030, the office of Neurology Professor C. M. F. Dooley. A second-year neurology resident L. R. C. Levin is meeting with Dooley to discuss an assigned project, the history of thrombolysis.

Levin: "Prof Dooley, I am puzzled by an article published in 2008¹ that showed that stroke patients whose clinical findings fluctuated often responded to intravenous thrombolysis."

Dooley: "Why are you puzzled?"

Levin: "Why would anyone . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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