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Why aren’t more doctors like Dr. Bernard Lown?
His long-ago first experience with medical overtreatment involved keeping hospital patients recovering from acute heart attacks on strict bed rest for 4 to 6 weeks. It was what he now calls "a form of...
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When doctors use words that hurt
Consider hearing the scary diagnosis of "heart failure" tripping lightly from your doctor's lips as if it were no big deal. Can there be anything more terrifying and demoralizing than hearing that your...
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A cardiologist’s advice on how to use this “wonder drug”
Cardiologist Dr. Bernard Lown was absolutely right! Over the past few years, I've spent countless hours foolishly suffering needlessly while trying to postpone taking a dose of this cardiac medication...
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Kindness in health care: missing in action?
As U.K. physician Dr. Jonathon Tomlinson warns his colleagues in medicine: "We need to start talking about kindness. We need to talk about the value of kindness in healthcare, and agree that it has...
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Two ways to portray heart failure. One of them works.
Which of these two heart failure awareness campaigns would you find most compelling? Which poster would you put up on your staff room bulletin board? Which non-profit organization would you be more...
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Avoiding avoidable cardiac care
As a heart attack survivor, what I'm looking for is quality medical care that's appropriate and available when I need it. But it's equally important for me to avoid all health care that is not 100%...
View ArticleWould you drive your car if its brakes were “failing”?
Once you hear the words "heart failure" aimed at you, you cannot unhear that diagnosis. When will physicians finally stop saying these hurtful words out loud?
View ArticleBed rest and other kinds of cardiac overtreatment
When Dr. Bernard Lown was a young cardiologist, he tried to stop the common hospital practice of keeping heart attack patients on strict bed rest for 4-6 weeks. Now, he calls this "a form of medieval...
View ArticleISCHEMIA study: that blockage isn’t a time bomb in your chest
Half of the world’s population was inadequately represented in this $100 million heart study.
View ArticleIs it finally time to change the name ‘heart FAILURE’?
Please please please can we STOP calling this condition heart FAILURE?
View ArticleHeart FAILURE vs. heart FUNCTION
Let's stop using the hurtful word FAILURE to heart patients. The Journal of the American College of Cardiology has now weighed in!
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