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Healthy Living

Choices…

For the health-inclined and for those who celebrate mastery of the obvious as the key ingredient of wellness, the story of public health guru, Dr. Lester Breslow, shines like a beacon. As reported this weekend in the NYTimes, the scientist that linked healthy habits to living longer dies (at home) at age 97. Dr. Breslow’s […]

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Doctoring General Cardiology General Medicine Knowledge

Fixing the heart rhythm is but just one chapter…

The heart’s resilience and fixability is striking.  That is, compared to the frailty of other components of the birthday-ravaged body.  We cardiologists are advantaged by the attention heart disease garners in the minds of patients.  We get priority over the polyp, or the bulging disc. But should we? He is an older man living a […]