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From the: Dan Rather Institute of Newspapering comes this e-article, posted by Ivanhoe, who by their own assessment are: "...the country's largest news-gathering organization covering medical breakthroughs, family health and issues important to women."

Trying to relay the fairly complex material in a recent JAMA publication regarding the relative usefulness of MRI and CT in detecting cerebral ischemia and hemorrhage, the writer shows thoroughly that he has NO idea about what he is reporting.

Using "Stroke" in the headline was the first clue...the writer goes on to confuse ischemia with hemorrhage, and then demonstrates a complete misunderstanding of disease chronology, interchanging and confusing acute events with those that are subacute and chronic. Simultaneously we are informed that MRI is superior because of...

"its ability to outline the presence, size, location and extent of a blocked blood vessel."

HA! Wow... I'd like a look at some of those thalamic perforators!

The press is often in over it's head when reporting on medicine. That's one reason why there oughta be a law against newspaper editorialists slamming health care with their misininformed, misdirected, OPINION pieces often promulgating massive changes to a system they neither understand nor participate in.

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health care also health·care (hlthkâr) n. :efforts made to maintain or restore health especially by trained and licensed professionals -- usually hyphenated when used attributively

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