Saturday, October 3, 2009

Who is an “Interventional cardiologist” ?

Is he a person who puts a metal coil coated with a synthetic fungus in a incidentally detected block inside a small coronary artery and sends the bill to the Insurance company ?

Is he a person in a cosmopolitan hospital who opens up a chronically closed coronary artery , in an asymptomatic patient and live telecasts his achievement trans continentally ?

Is he a person who checks in by the early morning flight and puts multiple wires in an aged patient with class 3 heart failure and make him walk 20 meters extra at a cost of 1000$ / Meter ?

Is he a person living in Wall street , who looks for variety of holes In the heart and trying to occlude it with exotic devicespci ptca stent

Is he the unknown physician who Intervenes in the natural history of Rheumatic heart disease and arrests immune mediated valve damage by giving the monthly injections penicillin in remote parts of our country ?

Is he the person who Intervenes to prevent young persons from smoking and help maintain their coronary endothelium enriched with nitric oxide & arrest the coronary epidemic ?

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Is he the small town doctor who Intervenes to treat a breathless cardiac failure patient with digoxin and frusemide and dramatically alleviate the symptoms and prolong the life of our poor country men?

Is she the village health nurse from an inaccessible health centre located in a hilly terrain , Intervening successfully, by pulling out live babies from severely anemic pregnant mothers with failing hearts ?

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