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Going to a cardiologist appointment while wearing shorts and a t-shirt in Montana in February is not supposed to happen. 🤷‍♂️

#Montana #Billings #cardiologist #Wednesday #weather

Just got home after spending all evening in hospital (actually two different hospitals and an ambulance) wIth another #SVT. This time the #MVM didn’t fix it and I was in SVT with a heart rate above 200 BPM for three hours. Different accompanying symptoms this time, including blood pressure so low they couldn’t get a reading. 90/45 was the last successful one before it went too low to register.

I’m all good again now, just exhausted from the exertion without exercise.

May have to reconsider that #ablation the #cardiologist wanted me to have. Will email in the morning.

#Cardiologist at the #Nephrology conference #KidneyWk #KidneyWk25

The single worst #medical job I ever had involved no hands-on patient care at all.

Now, I experienced some very bad days as a #military #medic, and more as a #civilian #EMT. I worked on #ambulances, in #emergency #departments, and in safety net #clinics. I saw suffering on a scale I had never even imagined before. Of course I did my best to relieve that suffering—both because it was my job, and because I’m a decent human being—but a lot of the time I just couldn’t, and neither could anyone else. I celebrated my successes and mourned my failures. The memory of the former sustains me to this day, but the accumulation of the latter did lasting damage to the inside of my head. Practically anyone who’s ever been in the biz can say the same.

But all the #gunshots and car #crashes and #overdoses and #child #abuse cases and long, steady descents into the grave, over the course of years, didn’t burn me out like two months in a #cardiology practice.

You may wonder why. Okay, cardiology patients are generally pretty sick: you don’t get assigned a #cardiologist, rather than having your primary care provider take care of it, unless your #heart’s in bad shape. Even so, could it really be worse than all the above? After all, cardiology offices tend to be clean, well-lit, organized places. Patients have appointments. Fairly routine care, and if there’s really bad news, it’s the #physicians who have to give it—which is not the situation in #emergency #medicine, let me tell you.

Well, it did, and here’s the reason. Like I said, I wasn’t taking care of patients directly. My interaction with them was brief, in exam rooms after they’d already been checked in and seen by their providers, and I never touched them. It was all paperwork.

My job was to be their advocate with the #insurance companies. I did most of my work in an office, with a comfy chair and a phone and a coffee cup close at hand. The job was actually supposed to be an #RN position, but I impressed them enough at the interview to get it, and I got paid more for it than any other medical job I had before or since.

I read their #charts and #prescriptions, studied insurance claims, and—now we come to the crux of it—looked over the reasons those claims were denied. Sometimes very elaborate reasons, with lengthy justifications. Other times the feedback from the insurance companies was basically just “NO.”

And then I called those companies, and worked my way up through the phone tree until I got someone on the line with some actual decision-making authority, and explained to them in great detail why they should approve a particular medication or procedure that would keep our patients from dying.

I succeeded … maybe a quarter of the time? Probably less. Occasionally the failures weren’t complete: I couldn’t get them to approve whatever the cardiologist had recommended, but I could at least squeeze something out of them. Something that would keep our patients, the people entrusting us with their lives, going for a little while longer. Some sliver of hope for the patients and their families. Some human connection that reminded the people on the other end of the line that their job wasn’t actually to condemn people to death, at least not on paper.

Usually not. But often enough to keep me there for a little while. The nightmares stayed under control as long as I had a bottle waiting for me when I got home. Now that I think about it, that may have been when my drinking problem got serious, although it would take several more years to fully manifest. Good thing it wasn’t a #hepatology practice, I guess.

A friend’s post dredged this memory up. I was going to leave it as a comment there, but I didn’t want to make it all about me. They have enough of their own problems. Just know, if you’re fighting this particular war right now, I’m with you.

Oh yeah, also? #Vote. Specifically, if you can’t vote for someone who will make it better, at least vote for someone who won’t make it worse. Because it can always get worse.

My #smoke rings turn to #hearts 🤔 I wonder what this could #mean ?

Should I visit a #cardiologist :)

I have a big heart. xD #Smokers and #athletes have bigger hearts xD Due to the arterial resistance which smoking creates xD

Resting heart rate continues to plummet. (It's a good thing.) Highest it's been is 82, 11/16/23. It's down to 74 this morning. Historically it has peaks & valleys- usually high is 79, maybe 80. I can get a low of 69, but usually it's low 70s. Why does it rise? What makes it fall? It is my body just fighting for homeostasis? 82 is concerning. I'm doing everything to be healthy. My HR shouldn't be so high. I wish I could talk to my #cardiologist.

#KickingTheShitOutOfPOTS
#Cardiology #Dysautonomia

#Physicians #publichealth experts have pointed 2 1 #culprit x & again when asked why #Americans #live #shorterlives than peers in nations w similar resources, especially people felled by #chronicdiseases in prime of life: #stress. #cardiologist, #endocrinologist, #obesity specialist #healtheconomist social #epidemiologists all said versions of same thing: Striving 2 get ahead in an unequal society contributes 2 people in US aging quicker, becoming sicker, dying younger. https://wapo.st/46zEIzq

The worst bit about visiting the #cardiologist is the wait that invariably happens because my doctor has to attend to emergencies.

It’s lunchtime and I’m hungry (and I’m far enough away to have left early enough that eating before wasn’t smart).

Hmmm do I eat out or wait until I’m home?!

#Acclaimed #gay #doctor to be #honored at #LGBTHistoryMonth #event

The #Pediatric #cardiologist moved from #Louisiana to #NewYork in #protest over #antiLGBTQ #bills.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Louisiana #NewYork #Activism #RoleModels #Representation #Culture

https://www.washingtonblade.com/2023/09/27/kleinmahon-honored-equality-forum/

42 minutes of level 1 #pilates on YT this morning. Great practice. Feeling strong when I step on the mat. Every time I have a workout, regardless of the #exercise, I feel more & more hopeful that I can actually put my #POTS into remission this time. I'm anxious that I have to do a stress test next week with the new #cardiologist. And if I'm being honest, I know I have to start #StrengthTraining & that's when I historically fall off the wagon.

#KickingTheShitOutOfPOTS

Global News BC: Nanaimo urgently needs cardiac unit, stakeholders say: ‘The inequality is obvious’ https://globalnews.ca/news/9883410/nanaimo-urgently-needs-cardiac-unit-stakeholders/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #NanaimoRegionalGeneralHospital #CardiacCatheterizationLab #MinistryOfHealth #CardiacServices #CardiacProgram #Cardiologist #nanaimomayor #CardiacCare #CardiacUnit #HealthCare #cardiac #Nanaimo #Health

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The decellularized GHOST HEART is created by stripping living cells from a pig’s heart. Researchers at the Texas Heart Institute hope that one day it could serve as a scaffold upon which to grow a working heart from human stem cells. More info via Science Friday: https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/ghost-heart-engineering/

#believeitornot #histmed #histsci #heart #cardiologist #cardiology #MedMastodon

Right on cue, just as I lined things up with another #cardiologist, the hospital called me to demand I do the 24 hour blood pressure and Holter monitor they were vaguely suggesting they might put me on back in October. I'll do it to collect data for the new cardiologist but the hospital cardiologist had extremely obviously already decided the problem was that I was fat, not working with her again

@RoverStoker @WillBlackWriter There are literally MILLIONS. The number 1 cause of #bankruptcy in the US is #MedicalDebt. Ambulance services are owned by #VentureCapital firms now. The cost of a trip to the hospital in an ambulance may NOT be covered by insurance unless the company is “#InNetwork”. Consultation with a specialist (#PlasticSurgeon, #OrthopedicSurgeon, #Cardiologist, etc…) in the Emergency Room may not be covered if they are not “in network”.

"#Hospitals across the country are using software powered by #Algorithms with #RacialBiases. (...)

This can cause physicians to #Misdiagnose medical conditions or delay critical treatment.

#DrJayneMorgan, a #Cardiologist and president elect of #SoutheastLifeSciences, joins #GeoffBennett to discuss."

#PBSNewshour,#Racism,#BlackMastodon

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-racial-biases-in-medical-algorithms-lead-to-inequities-in-care

My innards after a ascending aortic dissection which also killed off my left kidney. A 12 hour surgery, 12 hour coma and 14 units of blood. Now waiting on my 3rd open heart surgery to replace my aortic root, valve and arch. #cardiac #surgery #aorta #CTScan #kidney #heart #cardiology #cardiologist #openheartsurgery

I don't know if there's a server dedicated to #plantbaseddiet or medical questions about #hypertension. I've lost over 60lbs I've gotten off diabetes meds and my blood sugar is with normal limits for a non-diabetic person, but with both of these I'm not seeing any progress on my blood pressure. I have a #cardiologist I'm on meds but they aren't really working and I'm looking for things within my power that can aid in me bringing it down and getting off those meds too.

Hello! Excited to join #MedMastodon

As an #introduction, I'm a noninvasive #cardiologist ❤️🩺with a focus on #heartdisease in #women, #CardioObstetrics, #prevention, and #lipids. I also have an interest in #burnout, #ClinicianWellbeing, #WorkPlaceWellness, #WomenInCardiology

Thank you @nick for creating this 🌎 community!

#CardioMedMastodon #Cardioverse #Cardiology #ACCWIC #AHAWIC #ELAM
#MedEd #Medtwitter
#PelotonMedMastodon
#PelotonMedTwitter

My 86 yo dad is sick. #nhs 👍👊 but rural #Wales: no regular #GP - he's seeing different nurse practitioners, it's a mess

We really need a GP/ practice to assess his medications and collate the info from the specialists. Private or NHS, I'm looking for a clinic somewhere near #Porthmadog #bangor #northWales

I'm in Australia 😬. Can Mastodon help? Please boost if you have followers in Wales or #medical professionals or both.

He's seen a #cardiologist and #rheumatologist,

#health #doctor