http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/the-measured-man/309018/?single_page=true#
If we don't have something similar for stroke we are failing our human race. And we aren't going to get there with the current crop of stroke leaders.
Your particular body, mind you, not just some generalized atlas of the human frame, but a working model of your unique corpus, grounded in your own genome, and—using data collected by nanosensors and transmitted by smartphone—refreshed continually with measurements from your body’s insides. This information stream will be collated with similar readings from millions of other similarly monitored bodies all over the planet. Mining this enormous database, software will produce detailed guidance about diet, supplements, exercise, medication, or treatment—guidance based not on the current practice of lumping symptoms together into broad categories of disorders, but on a precise reading of your own body’s peculiarities and its status in real time.
“And at that point,” says Larry, in a typically bold pronouncement that would startle generations of white-coated researchers, “you now have, for the first time in history, a scientific basis for medicine.”
When one of the first Cray computers outside of secret nuclear programs
was set up in Munich, Larry started spending his summers there. “And in
about ’82, we were at a beer garden and it was probably my second glass
of beer, and I was being hosted by a German astrophysicist,
world-class,” Larry recalls. “He asks, ‘Tell me something. My father
helped build the trains Germany relied on during the war. And here in
our occupied country, you guys, you Americans, come over here and mooch
off of our supercomputers because you don’t have the wit to put them in
your universities where people can get access to them. Have I got that
right?’ And I said, ‘Pretty much.’ And he asks, ‘How did you guys win
the war?’”
This is a stroke war and we don't have the correct generals. Like Lincoln we have to keep firing them until the right one appears.
This is a stroke war and we don't have the correct generals. Like Lincoln we have to keep firing them until the right one appears.
Larry brought that question home with him to his perch at the University
of Illinois. There, in 1983, he helped draft “The Black Proposal,” an
unusually concise recommendation (in a black cover) for a $55 million
National Science Foundation supercomputer center. When it was funded,
along with four other NSF centers, Larry and others argued for using the
protocols of the military’s ARPANET
(the precursor to the Internet) to link the centers, so that civilian
researchers across the nation could use the fastest computers in America
for basic research. The linking proposal was controversial not only
because it took on the cult of secrecy surrounding the most-advanced
computers in America, but because it specifically recommended that the
NSF include only computer networks using TCP/IP, a universal computer
protocol designed to facilitate not secrecy, but collaboration. TCP/IP
allowed different kinds of computers to exchange data seamlessly. At the
time, the large computer companies—DEC,
IBM, General Electric, etc.—preferred a market model where
manufacturers competed to create large fiefdoms, networks that used only
their own machines. By adopting Larry’s proposal, the NSF enabled
computer networks to plug into the system, a critical step toward
today’s Internet.
If we had a visionary stroke association it would create a proposal to index and link all the stroke research. We could then build off all the failures, including the 1000 hyperacute failures that Dr. Michael Tymianski refers to.
ASA - Dr. Sacco,
NSA - Mr. Baranski,
WSO - Dr. Stephen Davis
Are you visionaries or status quo plodders?
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