applied it to a less intensive treatment over 22 years. Though the court noted that "merely intermittent" services were not continuous, the plaintiff in that case had continued to see doctors only at one hospital. Espinoza thus cannot rely on Wehrman, for he began seeing outside physicians back in 1980. Otto applied the doctrine even though plaintiff saw outside doctors, where he did so only at defendant's request and under defendant's supervision again a wholly different situation from Espinoza's.
It is worth examining the reasons underpinning each of the two situations in which the notion of continuous treatment has been employed. As for the first, it is predicated on the idea of negating presumed discovery  an idea not in issue where (as *211 here) actual knowledge exists.[9] AsWe welcome the following nine new editorial members. Given the number of countries they collectively represent is truly a reflection of the international focus of our open access journal. We thank them for their wiliness to give of their time and expertise to serving the journal in this capacity. We look forward to working with them.

Judi Johnson, PhD, RN, FAAN

Editor-in-Chief, APJON

**Editorial Members**

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Margaret Barton-Burke, PhD, RN, FAAN, is Director of Nursing Research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She is Emeritus Professor at the University of Missouri St. Louis, and Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology and The City University of New York. Margaret retired as Colonel from the Army Reserve and was the first female to hold the rank of Colonel in the Massachusetts National Guard. She