Douglass Andrew Morrison MD, PHD
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 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
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