Celebrity Chinese medicine practitioner banned over ‘liquid herb diet’ treatment
A Chinese medical practitioner has been banned for three years over his treatment of a patient with cardiac issues who followed his liquid herb diet.…
Tag: Cardiology
Study flags safety concerns with patients stopping beta blockers post-MI
Stopping beta blockers is linked to more hospitalisations among patients with prior MI and preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), researchers say. The French team…
A cosmetic concern that is more than skin deep
Fen, a 61-year-old woman, visits her GP to review the results of recent blood tests. She is concerned about a lump under her right eye,…
GP’s ex-wife sues him for mismanaging her cardiac risk factors during their marriage
The ex-wife of a GP who he treated for 17 years during their marriage is suing him for negligence, accusing him of failing to manage…
Medical Must-See: A heavy heart or cardiac cement emboli?
A routine CT scan has led doctors to a rare discovery: cardiac emboli caused by bone cement that had gone astray. The 38-year-old patient had…
Heartsink, slapstick and the human touch: Why I love my patients
According to the author Haruki Murakami, writing a novel is like ET assembling a transmitter out of junk in the garage. You need to collect…
A GP guide to colchicine in coronary artery disease
Despite advances in medicine, cardiovascular disease remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality within Australia.1 Patients with known coronary artery disease (CAD) have a…
Physician registrar on his four open-heart surgeries: ‘It’s the scenic route through training’
Dr Geoff Lester was refereeing a basketball game when the chest pain and dizziness hit. As a healthy 24-year-old, about to finish an economics degree,…
I’m sitting on a cardiac time bomb — and that’s not the end of my tale of woe
In the Alan Bennett play, The History Boys, a teacher asks one of his students, a North Country lad, why he doesn’t like studying history. “History?”…
Naloxone may improve cardiac arrest survival even in non-overdose cases, study suggests
Overdose reversal agent naloxone can improve survival in drug-related cardiac arrests and possibly other cardiac arrests, a retrospective cohort study suggests. The study is the…
