Abstract
To the fastidious reader, editor's choice may suggest contented luxury: savory literary selections proffered not only to enrich the intellect but also to pique the sensibilities. For the editor, the implications are quite different: faced with the need of exercising choice, his state is one of harrowing agitation. A case in point is the paper on Wilson's disease beginning on page 352 of this issue. Before attaining printed status, however, the manuscript passed through reviewers' assaults, editors' pincers and statisticians' ambuscades in a journey as perilous as any undertaken by Sigurd or King Olaf. We call it the Saga of . . .

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