Monday, December 31, 2012

Strokes among those younger than 55 are a growing phenomenon


Reading the first paragraph is precisely why we need an objective diagnosis of stroke. Like maybe one of these eleven. This is stupid that something so severe has no objective way to identify it.  We will just get the F.A.S.T. do-nothingness and kick the can down the road again from our stroke associations.  
But hell nothing will get done with the current stroke leadership out there.
http://www.philly.com/philly/health/20121231_Understanding_Stroke.html

Brent Wylie was arguing with the doctors in the emergency room at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. They said he had just had a stroke; he insisted that he had had a few beers and was probably drunk. That's why he had fallen on the sidewalk and was slurring his words.
"I had just graduated from college two months earlier, and I was totally healthy," Wylie, then 23, said. "Strokes didn't happen to people like me."

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