Table of Contents
Chapter 1 We Gotta Get Out of This Place If It’s the Last Thing We Ever Do
Chapter 2 The Balloon Inflation Heard ‘Round the World and the Revolution in the Care for Patients with Acute
Coronary Syndromes
Chapter 3 In Search of the Father
Chapter 4 Father Hunger in the Realm of Mother
Chapter 5 Unless he has an enemy, he isn’t sure that he is alive . . .
Chapter 6 Looking for a Sensei
Chapter 7 Entering a World of Pain
Chapter 8 Learning How to Think Like a Flea
Chapter 9 Paying the Price for Trying to Have The Right Answer to Every Question
Chapter 10 Attending to the Closed-Chest, Spontaneously Breathing, Conscious, Human “Model of Disease”
Chapter 11 Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Right Hearts of Men?
Chapter 12 Learning How to Accept Help
Chapter 13 Death of my Father
Chapter 14 The Care for Heart Attack Patients in the 1970s
Chapter 15 The Denver Veterans Affairs “Salvage Angioplasty” Experience
Chapter 16 In Praise of the United States Veterans Affairs Healthcare System
Chapter 17 The Ascendancy of the Randomized Clinical Trial: The Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Program
Chapter 18 Medically Refractory Rest Angina: Making the Case for a Randomized Clinical Trial of Plasty versus Bypass for Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes
Chapter 19 Of Dreams and Becoming a Mensch: The Breckinridge Conferences
Chapter 20 The AWESOME Trial: Planning a Multicenter, Randomized Clinical Trial of Plasty versus Bypass for Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients
Chapter 21 Generalizing from a Controlled Trial to the Real World: Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Agrees to Fund a Parallel, Prospective Registry
Chapter 22 The AWESOME War: Trying to Conduct a Fair Fight Between Two Groups of Doctors Over Their Respective Means of Making a Living
Chapter 23 Conducting a Multicenter Trial: The Devil Is in the Details
Chapter 24 What You See Is All There Is: Trying to Generalize VA Trial Results to Women
Chapter 25 Gratitude for the AWESOME Trial and Registries
Chapter 26 Teaching Consists of Modeling Behavior
Chapter 27 High-Risk Cardiac Revascularization and Clinical Trials: Putting the AWESOME Hypothesis into Context
Chapter 28 Paying the Price for a High-Risk Plasty Program: I Return to the Tucson VA and Begin Epidemiology
Grad School
Chapter 29 Who Says I Don’t Know JACC?
Chapter 30 STEMI Call for a Rural, Regional, Cardiology Service: Applying the AWESOME Hypothesis in the
Real World
Chapter 31 Brother, Can You Lend Me a Hand? Radial Access
Chapter 32 Stress Echocardiography: The Interbeing of Structure and Function
Chapter 33 Cardiac Rehabilitation: Encouraging Positive Life Change through Exorcism
Chapter 34 The Marriage of Epidemiological Study Data with the Care for Unique and Autonomous Patients in the Real World
Chapter 35 Plasty with Stents Is the Preferred Emergency Treatment for Acute Myocardial Infarction
Chapter 36 The Patients Teach their Doctors How to Live and How to Die: Take Heart! Have Courage! Dare to Struggle!
Denouement: What Goes Around Comes Around
Passing the Torch
Bibliography
Glossary of Medical and Epidemiological Terms
Participants in Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study #385: the Angina With Extremely Serious Operative Mortality Evaluation (AWESOME) Randomized Clinical Trial and Registries
Chapter 2 The Balloon Inflation Heard ‘Round the World and the Revolution in the Care for Patients with Acute
Coronary Syndromes
Chapter 3 In Search of the Father
Chapter 4 Father Hunger in the Realm of Mother
Chapter 5 Unless he has an enemy, he isn’t sure that he is alive . . .
Chapter 6 Looking for a Sensei
Chapter 7 Entering a World of Pain
Chapter 8 Learning How to Think Like a Flea
Chapter 9 Paying the Price for Trying to Have The Right Answer to Every Question
Chapter 10 Attending to the Closed-Chest, Spontaneously Breathing, Conscious, Human “Model of Disease”
Chapter 11 Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Right Hearts of Men?
Chapter 12 Learning How to Accept Help
Chapter 13 Death of my Father
Chapter 14 The Care for Heart Attack Patients in the 1970s
Chapter 15 The Denver Veterans Affairs “Salvage Angioplasty” Experience
Chapter 16 In Praise of the United States Veterans Affairs Healthcare System
Chapter 17 The Ascendancy of the Randomized Clinical Trial: The Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Program
Chapter 18 Medically Refractory Rest Angina: Making the Case for a Randomized Clinical Trial of Plasty versus Bypass for Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes
Chapter 19 Of Dreams and Becoming a Mensch: The Breckinridge Conferences
Chapter 20 The AWESOME Trial: Planning a Multicenter, Randomized Clinical Trial of Plasty versus Bypass for Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients
Chapter 21 Generalizing from a Controlled Trial to the Real World: Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Agrees to Fund a Parallel, Prospective Registry
Chapter 22 The AWESOME War: Trying to Conduct a Fair Fight Between Two Groups of Doctors Over Their Respective Means of Making a Living
Chapter 23 Conducting a Multicenter Trial: The Devil Is in the Details
Chapter 24 What You See Is All There Is: Trying to Generalize VA Trial Results to Women
Chapter 25 Gratitude for the AWESOME Trial and Registries
Chapter 26 Teaching Consists of Modeling Behavior
Chapter 27 High-Risk Cardiac Revascularization and Clinical Trials: Putting the AWESOME Hypothesis into Context
Chapter 28 Paying the Price for a High-Risk Plasty Program: I Return to the Tucson VA and Begin Epidemiology
Grad School
Chapter 29 Who Says I Don’t Know JACC?
Chapter 30 STEMI Call for a Rural, Regional, Cardiology Service: Applying the AWESOME Hypothesis in the
Real World
Chapter 31 Brother, Can You Lend Me a Hand? Radial Access
Chapter 32 Stress Echocardiography: The Interbeing of Structure and Function
Chapter 33 Cardiac Rehabilitation: Encouraging Positive Life Change through Exorcism
Chapter 34 The Marriage of Epidemiological Study Data with the Care for Unique and Autonomous Patients in the Real World
Chapter 35 Plasty with Stents Is the Preferred Emergency Treatment for Acute Myocardial Infarction
Chapter 36 The Patients Teach their Doctors How to Live and How to Die: Take Heart! Have Courage! Dare to Struggle!
Denouement: What Goes Around Comes Around
Passing the Torch
Bibliography
Glossary of Medical and Epidemiological Terms
Participants in Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study #385: the Angina With Extremely Serious Operative Mortality Evaluation (AWESOME) Randomized Clinical Trial and Registries
