A 24-Hour Medical Assistant Dr. Meissner takes us through a very active day in the life of a Palmtop in the pocket of a Cardiologist. The pager beeped loudly in my ear. Well, the current revolution in modern cardiology care, means that sleep is optional.
Heart disease is the number one killer in America.
You need to be prepared to respond decisively to patients with acute heart attacks and it does not matter whether it's day nor night. Still at home, I discussed the situation with the Emergency Room physician and made treatment recommendations over the phone. The patient was a 45 year old male, smoker with hypertension and no previous history of heart attacks who came to the ER within one hour of his heart attack. Looking at his faxed EKG, he appears to be damaging the lateral wall of his heart. The physician I was assisting over the phone was at a small rural ER, and he had never given streptokinase before.