A Grace

Grace

whence she had come nor whither she was bound, for she had no record of any kind with her. When she was questioned her vocabulary seemed to consist solely of head shakings and a few utterly unintelligible syllables. It is not recorded how Grace happened to be thrust into a second grade that first day. But it was the second grade teacher who began to complain, a few days later, of "that little n...

A Message From Dr Grace Dammann about States of Grace

P eople have asked me how I decided to participate in the film States of Grace. When we started, I'd been in the hospital for well over a year, and I thought, " Of course this makes sense. " My attitude toward pretty much everything that comes my way in life is to just say " yes " and pick up the pieces. So my attitude was Just say " yes " because you've had an incredible experience—both becaus...

Saving Grace: a Christmas story.

Gerald Grace

The death of Mr. Gerald Grace took place in South Africa as the result of a singularly tragic incident on Sept. 17th. For some time the Witwatersrand had been terrorised by a band of desperadoes. Mr. Grace was travelling on the Witwatersrand reef in a motor-car resembling that in which the gang was believed to be escaping. The police challenged the car, but, according to the account in the Rand...

Is a GRACE 3.0 needed?

In this issue of the Journal, Sergio Raposeiras-Roubín et al. present an original study that identifies the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) risk score as an independent predictor of 30-day mortality and major cardiovascular events in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The ability to identify patients at risk for clinical events that endanger their lives or worsen thei...