Health care is often driven by supply: A new cardiac center opens and suddenly more people need stents.
The Nemours Cardiac Center's creator and director is Dr. William Norwood, a trailblazer in the development of reconstructive heart surgery.
The Nemours Cardiac Center at the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Del. vividly demonstrates what dedicated leadership in medicine can achieve.
Because of the way our health care system works today -- with emphasis on restricting immediate costs -- this cardiac center, despite Norwood's brilliant successes, could never happen without the Nemours Foundation.
When Province bought a run-down 82-year-old hospital in Elko, Nev. in 1998, it promised a new cardiac lab, cancer center, medical library and psychiatric programs--all without raising prices or reducing services.
"Probably the group of centers which were studied in this paper are more sophisticated and more aware of radiation-reduction methods than your typical center that is performing cardiac CT angiography, " he says.
"I don't think it's overwhelming evidence, " says Carl Lavie, medical director of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans.
"We expect it to be an extra burden, " says Kristen Graves, administrator for the Cardiac Catherization Laboratory at New York University Medical Center.
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Summerall died Tuesday at age 82 of cardiac arrest, said University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center spokesman Jeff Carlton, speaking on behalf of Summerall's wife, Cheri.
"There's an incredible amount of research and a very large sum of venture capital and private investment going into the field, " says Dr. Amit Patel, a cardiac surgeon and director of Cardiac Cell Therapy at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
You'd be mad at having to return your car to the mechanic within a month, yet rehospitalization after people get their hearts repaired too often is treated as business as usual, laments Dr. Ricardo Bello, a cardiac surgeon at New York's Montefiore Medical Center.
At that, the doctor asked Isom, a cardiac surgeon and surgeon in chief at Weill-Cornell Medical Center in New York, whom he would recommend at his sister institution, Columbia-New York Hospital, in Upper Manhattan.
The two are not cardiac specialists: Lee is a radiology resident at Stanford University Medical Center, where Yun teaches.
Speaking to the BBC at the weekend, they questioned whether doctors at the Mount Sinai Medical Center had been right to operate on him after he suffered cardiac arrest.
Summerall died Tuesday of cardiac arrest, said Jeff Carlton, a spokesman for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
As reported here previously, Poldermans was fired for scientific misconduct by the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, where he had been a professor of medicine and the head of perioperative cardiac care.
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