Baylor Health Care System: Facts and ideas from anywhere

	Past Issue: Volume 19, Number 1 • January 2006		Return to Table of Contents
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Facts and ideas from anywhere

William C. Roberts, MD, Editor in Chief

When I started my tenure as editor in chief of The American Journal of Cardiology in 1982, I began writing editorials for each issue. I continued this practice for a decade and still contribute several editorials each year. Here I reprint (with permission from the publisher) some of these columns. References for each section appear in the original articles.

Topics covered this issue:

• Oslerian advice (May 15, 1983)
• Who was Holter? (October 1, 1983)
• An agent with lipid-lowering, antihypertensive, positive inotropic, negative chronotropic, vasodilating, diuretic, anorexigenic, weight-reducing, cathartic, hypoglycemic, tranquilizing, hypnotic, and antidepressive qualities (January 1, 1984)
• Animal behavior-human behavior-cardiac behavior (September 1, 1983)
• Can rest and relaxation be obtained by combining a "vacation" with a medical meeting or a medical meeting with a "vacation"? (March 15, 1984)
• How long do physicians live? (November 1, 1985)
• The most powerful cause of sudden death (January 1, 1986)
• Characteristics of long-term successful physician researchers (November 1, 1986)
• Writing versus editing (October 1, 1984)
• The "hot eye" and the "cold eye" (June 1, 1985)
• Reviews of classic books and ineptness of reviewers: lessons for judges of medical manuscripts (April 1, 1987)
• The "blessing" of angina pectoris (November 1, 1983)
• When I have an acute myocardial infarction take me to a hospital that has a catheterization laboratory and open cardiac surgical facilities (May 1, 1984)
• The 2 most common congenital heart diseases (April 1, 1984)
• Extreme hypercholesterolemia = malignant atherosclerosis (July 1, 1984)
• The worst heart disease (November 1, 1984)
• The silver anniversary of cardiac valve replacement (September 1, 1985)
• Cardiac rupture, abdominal aneurysmal rupture, and dissecting aortic rupture: a preventive trio (April 1, 1986)
• Systemic hypertension: some observations (December 1, 2005)
• Managing patients with high blood pressure before the introduction of antihypertensive drugs (November 15, 2005)