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Great Historical Summary Of Cardiology And Stents
Interventional Cardiology has undergone an incredible transformation over the past 40 years.
Dr. Morrison astutely, humorously, humbly and historically traces interventional coronary evolution from its limited initial utility to its emergent front line use in some of cardiology’s most life-threatening events. He tempers his enthusiasm for the procedure and his interest in advancing medical science, with the emotional and physical toll the journey can extract on the physician and patient. He repetitively pays sincere homage to the many patients, colleagues and staff who assisted in his medical pursuits. This book would serve as an enjoyable, condensed historical summary of coronary interventional cardiology for physicians, nurses and staff affiliated with catheterization laboratories.
Memoire of an Iconoclastic Pioneer of High-Risk Plasty
Different Drummer recounts the role the author played in the coronary angioplasty (plasty) revolution, the price he paid for his success, the debt he owes to many heroes, and his hopes for the future for patients and care providers.
Mental Health of Physicians and other Care Providers
After a nearly career-ending cervical disc, the author took advantage of twenty years of psychiatric counseling and more than thirty years of antidepression medications to salvage a high-risk plasty career. Medical care provider burnout, depression, PTSD, substance abuse, and suicide are important, current issues. Different Drummer serves to encourage medical care providers to ask for and accept care for themselves emphasizing the two-way nature of empathy and compassion. The book proposes that continuously reassessing one’s purpose and goals can also help deal with career-related depression, and ameliorate burnout. It encourages individual practitioners to use a range of methods for dealing with workaholism, competitiveness, medicalization, depersonalization, and the repeated losses implicit in caring for sick patients.
The Role of the Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare system in Clinical Research, Teaching, and Changing Evidence-Based Medical Practice
Medical care has evolved rapidly since World War II. In cardiology, for example, the care for patients with acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) has changed diametrically from passive, watchful waiting to emergency intervention. Three week hospitalizations have been replaced with emergency plasty with stents, where time is measured in minutes (door-to-balloon time). The evidence used to support these changes comes from clinical epidemiology studies, most notably randomized clinical trials, and prospective registries. Different Drummer highlights the roles of the Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies program, the Food and Drug Agency (FDA) cardiac device panel, and the American College of Cardiology-American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) guideline panels, in using randomized clinical trial and prospective registry data to rationalize major changes in the delivery of patient care.
Interventional Cardiology has undergone an incredible transformation over the past 40 years.
Dr. Morrison astutely, humorously, humbly and historically traces interventional coronary evolution from its limited initial utility to its emergent front line use in some of cardiology’s most life-threatening events. He tempers his enthusiasm for the procedure and his interest in advancing medical science, with the emotional and physical toll the journey can extract on the physician and patient. He repetitively pays sincere homage to the many patients, colleagues and staff who assisted in his medical pursuits. This book would serve as an enjoyable, condensed historical summary of coronary interventional cardiology for physicians, nurses and staff affiliated with catheterization laboratories.
Memoire of an Iconoclastic Pioneer of High-Risk Plasty
Different Drummer recounts the role the author played in the coronary angioplasty (plasty) revolution, the price he paid for his success, the debt he owes to many heroes, and his hopes for the future for patients and care providers.
Mental Health of Physicians and other Care Providers
After a nearly career-ending cervical disc, the author took advantage of twenty years of psychiatric counseling and more than thirty years of antidepression medications to salvage a high-risk plasty career. Medical care provider burnout, depression, PTSD, substance abuse, and suicide are important, current issues. Different Drummer serves to encourage medical care providers to ask for and accept care for themselves emphasizing the two-way nature of empathy and compassion. The book proposes that continuously reassessing one’s purpose and goals can also help deal with career-related depression, and ameliorate burnout. It encourages individual practitioners to use a range of methods for dealing with workaholism, competitiveness, medicalization, depersonalization, and the repeated losses implicit in caring for sick patients.
The Role of the Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare system in Clinical Research, Teaching, and Changing Evidence-Based Medical Practice
Medical care has evolved rapidly since World War II. In cardiology, for example, the care for patients with acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) has changed diametrically from passive, watchful waiting to emergency intervention. Three week hospitalizations have been replaced with emergency plasty with stents, where time is measured in minutes (door-to-balloon time). The evidence used to support these changes comes from clinical epidemiology studies, most notably randomized clinical trials, and prospective registries. Different Drummer highlights the roles of the Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies program, the Food and Drug Agency (FDA) cardiac device panel, and the American College of Cardiology-American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) guideline panels, in using randomized clinical trial and prospective registry data to rationalize major changes in the delivery of patient care.
