Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2016
Journal
Journal of Thoracic Disease
Volume
8
Issue
3
First Page
204
Last Page
207
URL with Digital Object Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/jtd.2016.01.83
Abstract
The Big Short tells the story of a small group of skeptics who profited from the financial crisis in 2007 by betting against collateralized (mortgage) debt obligations (CDO). Importantly, the novel paints a clear picture of the eccentric nature of contrarians who think divergently and against the grain or bet against an accepted truth or “sure” thing. In a similar manner, Ishii and co-workers’ recent work describes their team’s development of a pulmonary imaging technology that provides divergent and disruptive in vivo lung measurements of oxygen partial pressure in the context of the prevailing and longstanding consensus around FEV1 as the definitive diagnostic of chronic lung disease. The Big Short tells the story of a small group of skeptics who profited from the financial crisis in 2007 by betting against collateralized (mortgage) debt obligations (CDO). Importantly, the novel paints a clear picture of the eccentric nature of contrarians who think divergently and against the grain or bet against an accepted truth or “sure” thing. In a similar manner, Ishii and co-workers’ recent work describes their team’s development of a pulmonary imaging technology that provides divergent and disruptive in vivo lung measurements of oxygen partial pressure in the context of the prevailing and longstanding consensus around FEV1 as the definitive diagnostic of chronic lung disease.
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Citation of this paper:
Capaldi DP, Guo F, Parraga G. Imaging how and where we breathe oxygen: another Big Short? J Thorac Dis 2016;8(3):E204-E207. doi: 10.21037/jtd.2016.01.83
Notes
This article was initially published by AME Publishing Company in the Journal of Thoracic Disease. It is openly available from the publisher's website at: http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/jtd.2016.01.83