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Carolyn Thomas’s excellent and educational blog, www.myheartsisters.org, highlights Dr. Wayne Sotile’s Thriving After Heart Disease. It is very hard to find books about dealing with the emotions of recovering from a heart attack; this book seems to do that to some extent. Dr. Sotile’s book sounds quite worthwhile, but I have problems with the title. [...]
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Arthur Dove The Red Sun 1935 When an artist friend of mine saw the material I had drawn after the heart attack (www.heartak.com), she said it reminded her of the work of Arthur Dove. (Dove was essentially the first abstract painter from the United States). He had his first heat attack in 1939; he never [...]
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From Dr. Fodoros on the Web: After you’ve survived a heart attack , you’ve got a lot to learn about and a lot to think about. While in the good old days you might have had a week or two of hospitalization to go through all the testing, risk assessment, education, and initiation of therapy [...]
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Lack of insurance and financial concerns keep patients from treating a heart attack like the emergency it is, researchers affirmed. A delay in getting to the hospital for treatment of acute MI was 38% more likely among the uninsured (adjusted P<0.001) and 21% more likely among insured patients with financial concerns (P=0.01), reported Paul S. [...]
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Your character is going along in his daily life when suddenly he complains of a shooting, radiating pain in his left shoulder and arm. Within seconds he staggers, clutching at his chest while his face turns bright red, then he drops like a stone to the floor, unconscious and probably dead. Congratulations: your character’s just [...]
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From the introduction to the exhibit: In 1948 a heart attack signaled the end of an active life. One-third of the patients who reached the hospital died within weeks, and surviving patients still faced a long ordeal,” said Claude Lenfant, director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health. [...]
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