Greeting the Unknowns with a Cheer

Greeting from the Chairman

Veteran satisfaction with RN voice-mail greeting.

Voice-mail communication is often used to convey information between the registered nurse (RN) and the Veteran. Using a pretest-posttest design, this study examined whether implementation of a standardized voice-mail greeting had an impact on Veteran satisfaction and the number of messages left on the RN voice-mail. Veterans were more satisfied and there was a significant decrease in RN voice-m...

An era, a remembrance, a greeting…

I do not wish to commemorate Professor Dagianti based solely on his scientific achievements. It would trivialize his memory. I wish you to remember him as a friend and mentor to all university cardiologists. I am old enough to remember him when he was full of strength and fighting spirit, when he used to discuss with his colleagues about the role of the newborn academic discipline of Cardiology...

One Cheer for Representationalism?†

When Dewey declared in  that pragmatism would ‘give the coup de grace to representationalism ’, he had (to say the least) underestimated the tenacity of the intended victim. Even as he wrote, Russell was at work on the waggons which were to carry so much of philosophy into new lands—regions where Frege’s referentialism was part of the bedrock (or so it seemed). A century later, despite rene...

A Game of Unknowns.

Tsivgoulis et al previously reported that acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients with large artery atherosclerosis (LAA) who took statins before stroke onset had fewer recurrent strokes and better functional outcomes than statin-naive patients. In this issue of ATVB, the same group reports that AIS patients with LAA taking statins before stroke onset had a significant, dose-dependent reduction in...