Wilmshurst, P T
Article History
Received: 2 October 2017
Accepted: 16 October 2017
First Online: 8 December 2017
Competing interests
: The author declares no financial conflicts of interest. His involvement in the MIST Trial is detailed in this article, but it included him being the principal cardiologist in the trial, being sued for libel by the sponsor of the trial (until the litigation ended when the corporation went into liquidation), and reporting the trial’s principal headache specialist to the General Medical Council, where the principal headache specialist was found guilty of dishonesty in the trial and was suspended from the Medical Register.