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Regular readers of this blog know that I frequently link to Carolyn Thomas’s website “About Women and Heart Disease.” Once again she has hit the nail on the head — this time a collection of anecdotes that her readers have reported about their interactions with cardiologists or doctors. It is painful, frightening and educational to [...]
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The term cardiology is derived from the Greek word καρδιά (transliterated as kardia and meaning heart or inner self). I was not aware of just how little attention cardiologists paid to emotions until I became a heart patient myself ten years ago… I have been amazed — perhaps “aghast” describes it better — how much [...]
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Yesterday’s post suggested that one of the problems with the cardiology experience is that it is overwhelmingly a male dominated field. Research suggests that female doctors “tend to be more encouraging and reassuring, use shared decision-making, ask more psychosocial questions and spend more time — up to 10 percent more — with patients than male [...]
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One of the major factors that influences the profession (and experience) of cardiology is that cardiologists are predominately male. Over-stating the stereotype, women are usually more concerned about relationship than men: my experience of cardiologists is that they emphasize facts over feelings, authority over collaboration. Although I have not found any direct research about [...]
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When I had my first ever meeting with a cardiologist (fifteen minutes worth) after having symptoms of dizziness, nausea, difficulty breathing, and chest pain, I was never given any written information about heart disease, angina, the symptoms of a heart attack, etc. I was given an appointment card to come back in two weeks, after [...]
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My first experience with a cardiologist was not auspicious. I went to the emergency room at the Fairbanks Memorial Hospitals with symptoms of dizziness, nausea and difficulty breathing. I was allowed to leave the hospital only if I agree to fly to see a cardiologist Anchorage the next day. (In the emergency room, on a late [...]
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