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Editorial
Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus
  1. Robert W Tarr
  1. Department of Radiology, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Ohio, USA
  1. Correspondence to Robert W Tarr, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, 5868 Liberty Road, Solon, OH 44139, USA; robert.tarr{at}uhhospitals.org

https://doi.org/10.1136/jnis.2009.001347

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    ‘So you think you can tell

    Heaven from Hell

    Blue skies from pain.

    Can you tell a green field

    From a cold steel rail?

    A smile from a vail?

    Do you think you can tell?’

    – Pink Floyd (1975)

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    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; not externally peer reviewed.