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Studies: Stem cells reverse heart damage (CNN) — On a June day in 2009, a 39-year-old man named Ken Milles lay on an exam table at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. A month earlier, he’d suffered a massive heart attack that destroyed nearly a third of his heart. “The most difficult part was the [...]
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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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A young man who just graduated from Agricultural College is walking by a farm in Iowa and watches an old farmer for a while. Finally, he says to the farmer, You know sir, with these new methods I just learned in school, I can show you how to farm twice as well as you are [...]
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