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Believing Patient-Reported Seizure Counts

Giridhar P. Kalamangalam, MD, DPhil; Jeremy D. Slater, MD; James A. Ferrendelli, MD

Arch Neurol. 2007;64(11):1565-1566.

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The philosopher Friedrich Waismann motivated the existence of his subject as a human intellectual endeavor arising from unexpected bewilderment, akin to boarding a train, spending a few hours traveling in a single direction, and suddenly arriving at the station of original departure. "We all have our moments when something quite ordinary strikes us as queer . . . facts . . . stare at us with a puzzling expression, and we begin to wonder whether they can possibly be the things we have known all our lives. . . . "¹

In their article in this issue of the Archives, Hoppe et al² perform such a rug-pulling maneuver from under the feet of any doctor who has ever staffed an epilepsy clinic, inquired about the patient's seizure frequency in the usual manner, made appropriate changes to prescription anticonvulsants, patted the patient on the back, arranged a review . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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