In 1958, this man’s heart kept stopping—20 times a day.
Doctors had no solution.
Then his wife demanded an experimental surgery that had only been tested on dogs.
What happened next changed medicine forever. 🧵
Today we approved two milestone treatments - the first cell-based gene therapies to treat sickle cell disease in patients 12 years and older. https://t.co/az8lDdRyz0
End of the year party with the @YaleCardiology EP fellows and family. This photo is missing two of the fellows and 3 more children! So proud of our graduating fellows Christopher Purtell, Hasan Ashraf, and Maen Ziki. Many to the spouses and children that make this all work.
An excerpt from live unstable VT case from PHX >#RIOCongress2022. Our unfiltered & genuine excitement with fellow @DrKatrapati says it all- physiology, intensity, risk/payoff to eradicate VT. Thank you to our patient for their generosity. #ablateVT#ILAM#VTin3D
I want to share what I think about MDs. I love each and everyone that busted their ass, borrowed too much money, sacrificed more than we can ever quantify, in hopes of helping their patients. Medicine is an imprecise science. The uncertainties far outnumber the absolutes.
I recently came across data on who we spend our time with over the course of our lives.
The insights are simultaneously inspiring and depressing.
Here are 6 graphs everyone needs to see:
6/ So, how can we minimize data repetition?
Well, this is why I chart review & see follow up patients before rounds. AND I tell my learners that I do this.
Why?
Because this turns rounds from an information-sharing time into a decision-making time.
Barry Zaret, cardiologist, humanist, poet/artist, & devoted family man passed away last Fri... all whose lives he touched are heartbroken. I will always be grateful for his encouragement & example. A person of ideas, integrity and values. @YaleMed@YaleCardiology@MyASNC@OZ01027
Impact of MI on cardiac neurons, new paper by my colleague Dr. John Tompkins
Vagally-mediated heart block after myocardial infarction associated with plasticity of epicardial neurons controlling the atrioventricular node https://t.co/qBtWdoRdMS @utedrow @clancyatheart