Word: cardiologist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Doctors resent spending extra time with patients who demand exhaustive explanations or who merely exercise their hypochondria. "If you have to spend twice as much time because a patient's assertive and he wants to ask questions, it's certainly difficult to bill for that period of time," says cardiologist Alexander. "Lawyers and accountants don't have third parties or government agencies looking over their shoulders to determine whether their billings are fair." Patients understandably take a spare-no-expense attitude toward their health, but that is not a philosophy likely to keep a medical company in the black...
Manhattan cardiologist Arthur Weisenseel remembers the elderly woman who arrived in Mount Sinai Hospital's emergency room having suffered a heart attack and battling pneumonia. A man and a woman hovered by her bedside, and the emergency staff assumed they were worried relatives. Then the man pulled out a yellow pad, asked for the correct spelling of Weisenseel's last name and identified himself as the family lawyer. "I kind of lost it that day, and I told him to get out," Weisenseel recalls. "That may have been the most distressing situation I've had in 22 years of practice...
Cheney's principal drawback is his health. He had his first heart attack during his initial congressional campaign, and two more followed before he underwent bypass surgery last August. Cheney -- who said last week that he got his cardiologist's O.K. to take the Pentagon job -- generally shrugs off questions about his condition. "Some people are short, fat and ugly," he told the Casper (Wyo.) Star Tribune last year. "I happen to have coronary- artery disease...
...Lungs lose on the average 30% to 50% of their maximum breathing capacity between ages 30 and 80. Blood vessels lose elasticity, though the heart stays astonishingly well preserved. Notes Cardiologist Jerome Fleg of the National Institute on Aging: "The heart of a normal 80-year-old can pump blood as effectively under stress as that of a normal 30-year...
...even begins to measure up to the expectations of the U.S. study, aspirin could become the cardiologist's dream. It is inexpensive, readily available, effective in low dosages and relatively nontoxic for most people. First derived from willow bark and now chemically synthesized, aspirin works by blocking the manufacture of hormone-like chemicals called prostaglandins that are instrumental in the formation of blood clots...