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…
Tag: Cardiology
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…
Apixaban safer than rivaroxaban in AF with liver disease, doctors say
Doctors can be reassured that apixaban is safe for patients with AF and liver disease, a retrospective cohort study suggests. The Harvard University-led study found…
My patient blamed the wind for her cardiac symptoms: the GP dilemma when patients choose denial
I love how children reason, trying to make sense of this complicated world based on their limited experience. A little girl was noted by her parents…
Hardware, plants, diastolic BP — Bunnings-based hypertension screening trial is just the beginning
A clinical trial is snagging Bunnings shoppers for a blood pressure check in a bid to reach patients who do not typically consider themselves at…
