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Face it, the Holidays can be depressing. You’re missing your family…you don’t have a family…you have a family… you’re mad at you family…your family is mad at you.. you’re out of money … you’re out of time… it’s winter and you live in Fairbanks…. It’s time to cry. The way out is through — get [...]
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Four of Time Magazine‘s selections for the top medical breakthrough of the last year involve the heart — Avandia, CPR, a blood test for heart attack, and the development of stem cells. On the average, medical practice is about fifteen to twenty years behind the research. So the average patient may have to wait at [...]
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One always has to be skeptical of research. This research suggests that people’s minds are wandering 47% of the time. (It also may be more characteristics of people who carry Iphones, who I suspect actually like multi-tasking) It continues to suggest how important the mind is in one’s feeling of well-being; learning how to focus [...]
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We should do this every week — over the length of the year this would make for a 260% risk reduction for having a heart attack….. Daylight saving time: Spring forward into a heart attack, fall back into cardio health? Scientific American Jordan Lite Oct 29, 2008 Here’s a new reason to look forward to [...]
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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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Physicians who work with geriatrics have my vote for an under-appreciated speciality… Dr. Lachs spotlights a vulnerable time in hospital care… After a heart attack, the last thing I wanted to do was leave the hospital… This was the most anxiety I had ever dealt with in my life; the hospital felt like the only [...]
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Strong earthquake jolts Anchorage by Rachel D’Oro The Associated Press 9/20/10 ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An earthquake jolted Anchorage on Monday and was felt well beyond Alaska’s largest city. The 4.9 magnitude quake struck at 1:24 p.m. about 10 miles southwest of Anchorage, according to earthquake monitors. There were no reports of injury or damage, but [...]
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New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College August 12, 2010 Elevated heart rate over time linked to significant risk of death Findings suggest patients and their doctors should track heart rate over time to uncover health issues An elevated resting heart rate that develops or persists during follow-up is associated with a [...]
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