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Experiences with healthcare professionals
Discuss your experiences with healthcare professionals. Help others ask the right questions when seeking help.
Stress Test - Assessment
- By lonewolf7 · New reply 4:36 am
- 6 replies
- You all must be tired of all my questions but I do want to know as much as possible about having a heart attack and angina and what better place than among women who have experienced it. Last week I had ...
I FINALLY saw a new doc!!!!!!
- By sunshine3D · Posted June 30, 2009
- 0 replies
- I posted a message about not having a doctor to check on my ICD and follow my cardiomyopathy. As of yesterday, I now have a electrophysiologist in The Woodlands, TX (just a part of Houston). She is really ...
Cardiologist convicted for performing unnecessary interventional procedures
- By Kennarina · New reply June 29, 2009
- 5 replies
- Hope none of you have had this Louisiana criminal as your doc... http://www.theheart.org/article/982403.d o XOXOXO http://www.myheartsisters.org ...
Anyone heard of this doctor?
- By sunshine3D · Posted June 19, 2009
- 0 replies
- I will be seeing a doctor in The Woodland, TX, near Houston and am wondering if anyone out there can give me some idea of her: Dr. Hina F. Siddiqui. She is an electrophysiologist, who I will be seeing ...
Just When You Think You Have Heard It All!
- By gracie62 · New reply May 31, 2009
- 14 replies
- I had to share this with you ladies, because I know we have all had our share of red tape and hassels with insurance and doctors' office staff. My daughter is still undergoing testing to diagnose chronic ...
Back to square one
- By Nancy45 · New reply May 27, 2009
- 3 replies
- After being in the ICU for 3 days for a nitro drip which has to be monitored all the time, seeing my PCP, and then my cardiologists, this is what I faced. THe PCP and his rotating famiy practice resident ...
Update...on my PVC's
- By Taterbug · New reply May 27, 2009
- 9 replies
- Hello all, I had to get on here today to tell you this. Quick overview first: 6-7 months ago I started having terrible chest pains with multiple PVC's. Was in the ER several times. They insisted that ...
I miss my Cardiologist in WA. State
- By BarbA · New reply April 11, 2009
- 8 replies
- Has anyone felt that their doctors don't listen to you when you know your body and how it works? I live in TN and I am unable to find a Cardiologist that will take the time to listen. I am not your normal ...
Heart Murmurs
- By Jan83443 · New reply March 24, 2009
- 4 replies
- In 2005 I went to Oregon to watch my grandtwins while my daughter gave birth to a baby girl. I ended up in the hospital for heart surgery. I knew I had a heart murmur, but not that it was a rare things ...
Issues about procedures at major teaching hospital
- By kk_stl · New reply March 23, 2009
- 7 replies
- Hi Heart Women sisters, I am so grateful for finding this website. I am amazed at the amount of support and the knowledge of everyone! I need some advice and to vent. We continue to be on a rollercoaster ...
Home testing for Protimes/ INR
- By CJA · New reply March 12, 2009
- 11 replies
- Looking around to see if anyone knows anything regarding the home testing method for those of us that have to PT/INR testing done. For the past 11 yrs. I have had to have a PT/INR test done for my clotting ...
Where to find a patient advocate to hire while in hospital
- By kk_stl · New reply March 3, 2009
- 4 replies
- During a recent hospitalization for my mom, we had trouble finding out what tests were being ordered and for what reason. Luckily, some of my mom's nurses broke the rules and shared with us the results ...
Handling different diagnosis and treatments between PCP and cardiologist
- By kk_stl · New reply March 2, 2009
- 7 replies
- I am so thankful to have stumbled across this website! I am learning so much more in addition to the research from medical journals I'm also doing. Here is our story... My mom went into the hospital for ...
Lack of communication with MD
- By gardenlady · New reply February 26, 2009
- 10 replies
- I called my doctor twice yesterday to get pain killers for surgery I had on Monday to remove a breast tumor. No-one returned my call. Why do doctors hate to perscribe pain relief? I am also recovering ...
Dissapointed With Healthcare Professionals
- By spizzakid · New reply February 26, 2009
- 9 replies
- I am new to this. I need to vent and I figure this is a good place. I had a heart attack on 2/15/2009. I am not happy with healthcare professionals. I guess I will get to the point. It has only been 10 ...
Does anyone know of a Cardiologist that is also Nutritionist/Naturopath
- By lheart · New reply February 18, 2009
- 19 replies
- I am looking for a Doctor with both ends of the spectrum. Cardiologist and Nutritionist and or Naturopath. I have been using them separately and they don't talk which makes things a little difficult ...
Event monitor question? & Interstitial lung disease
- By vrolijk · New reply February 17, 2009
- 4 replies
- Hi, Heart Sisters I have a new question for my heart support friends. I was diagnosed with interstitial lung disease. The Pulmonolist does not know the cause yet. Even though I have had blood test who ...
Abbreviations
- By AlaskaGirl · New reply February 2, 2009
- 7 replies
- Even though I've dealt with heart disease for 30 years, I am not up on all the abbreviations for the various and sundry types of heart disease and proceedure. Can someone give me a list of abbreviations ...
ICD induction necessary?
- By danamae · New reply January 27, 2009
- 6 replies
- Hi there, I was just wondering if anybody with an ICD could tell me if they were receiving annual inductions- where they sedate you and put you into V-fib to make sure your ICD fires. I had it done a ...
Sometimes a feeling is just a feeling.
- By Sarcasma40 · New reply January 15, 2009
- 3 replies
- Everyone of us has become ultra sensative to our bodys since our heart issues. Am I right? Every little feeling becomes a source of terror. Is that my heart? Is this the big one? What was the last thing ...
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