How to Protect Your Heart from Your Doctor
How to Protect Your Heart from Your Doctor Books
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How To Protect Your Heart From Your Doctor was written to educate heart patients who have been told they must undergo angiograms followed by angioplasty or bypass surgery that there are other options for both the diagnosis and treatment of their heart conditions. Noninvasive tests can provide all the in rank that is needed about a patient’s coronary artery disease even as modern medications have revolutionized the treatment of coronary artery disease. All too often angioplasty and bypass surgery are not compulsory as the first and only treatment option because these procedures are so profitable. Typically patients are threatened that unless they undergo surgery, they will have a heart attack or die. These are tactics of medical terrorism. There are now a large number of studies on over 20,000 patients comparing surgery or angioplasty with conservative medical treatment. Not a single study shows any benefit of these interventions. Neither angioplasty or bypass surgery preclude heart attacks or premature death. In fact, patients undergoing these procedures are more likely to die, have heart attacks, or go into heart failure. Thus, this book was written to inform the broadcast of the dangers of these interventions and that conservative treatment with modern medications is highly effective, safe, and will preclude heart attacks and premature death.
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The late Howard Wayne was my cardiologist for more than two years. After an unscrupulous Hoosier cardiologist tried to coerce and intimidate me into a quintuple bypass I didn’t need, I traveled to San Diego and received a second attitude from Howard. If his books teach you nothing more than to get a second attitude from a reputable noninvasive cardiologist you will find it is worth many times the price.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book has saved me an untold quantity of grief. After having multiple tests and $5,000 later my physician still didn’t know what caused skipped heart beats. After an additional slightly abnormal stress test he had me scheduled for a heart cath and possible angioplasty or heart bypass. Luckly I read Dr. Wayne’s “How to Protect Your Heart from Your Doctor.” This book is fantastic and not only saved me much aggrevation, I’m sure it saved untold thousands from similar invasive surgery. I can’t tell you how much I urge this book. Its fantastic!
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is a life-saver. I’m an enthusiastic lay researcher of health-correlated issues and when my spouse was dramatically and suddenly hustled in for coronary bypass surgery I started reading everything I may possibly get my hands on for his shape up. Nothing I have read has been as helpful or eye-opening as this book. I am surprised at the hostility of the Library Journal review – see above – so I plotting I’d add my two cents worth in support of this book.
The review says the book is frightening. Absolutely! But I also found it helpful and full of hope (for recovery and a normal life for heart patients) I don’t see how Dr. Wayne may possibly have been any more helpful or specific without really seeing a patient – every heart patient is unique.
I have worked in the medical insurance industry and also in medical offices for many years and can personally vouch for many of the things Dr. Wayne has to say. Regarding his comments about cholesterol, I reckon he is very courageous and from everything I have read about the theme I reckon he is right in his analysis of the situation.
This book serves two functions:
1) It is medically educational. Dr. Wayne is a fantastic teacher. He is able to clarify all about the heart and what causes heart disease better than anyone I’ve ever read.
2) It is politically educational. The days of Marcus Welby never existed! Our health care system is marvelous in many ways but there are huge problems and it is helpful to know the politics and huge business aspects of your heart shape up in order to know why certain types of procedures are not compulsory over others. I also now have a better understanding of how cardiologists train and that’s been helpful too.
Here’s what I really like about Dr. Wayne: he’s a genuine “scientist”. By that I mean that he is one of those rare doctors who report has it that really bothers to read research and question the studies first-hand. He is not content to have these studies spoon fed through the media or medical journals but goes aptly to the source and studies them. I have done this myself and can attest to being surprised numerous times. I have also learned (from his web site) that he has a very impressive research background which supports my comments about him being a scientist.
What are the weak points of this book? I would say that even as most of the time he supports his comments with copious studies and facts I noted there were times that he seemed to let his emotions run away from him just a bit. Some comments seemed as if they might be exaggerated. I do not necessarily reckon this is a negative top (who can blame him for feeling passionate about his vocation?) but just keep it in mind when reading.
As for my spouse, just as Dr. Wayne predicted, he finds that his bypass surgery was probaly a waste of time and did a lot of unnecessary hurt to his heart. He still has angina and I suppose we’ll never know if he really needed to go through that horrific surgery. Please read this book BEFORE you have the surgery!
As a final comment, my spouse fired off an e-mail to Dr.
Wayne after reading his book (because he was pretty upset after reading it)and he received a private and compassionate answer from the doctor. I found that impressive.
Rating: 5 / 5
Dr. Howard Wayne, a cardiologist involved in San Diego, has written a remarkably candid description of the horrors of heart care in the U.S. in his books How To Protect Your Heart From Your Doctor and Living Longer with Heart Disease. These books are required reading for anyone who cares about their health.
Dr. Wayne asserts that bypass heart surgery needed and angioplasty (inserting a balloon into a clogged artery to open it)are nearly never necessary. In the past 23 years, only 11 of his patients have had bypass. Dr. Wayne treats patients with drugs that have been shown to be as effective as the more invasive procedures–with fewer side effects.
Each year 400,000 bypass surgeries are performed in the U.S. The cost is over $40,000/operation. This is observably a lucrative medical industry for hospitals and surgeons. It also helps clarify why the in rank in his books is not more widely known or publicized.
Wayne notes that in England, only 174 angioplasties per million persons are done yearly, in contrast to 1300 per million in the U.S. The frightening conclusion is that in the U.S., angioplasties are being done primarily for dollars rather than “sense.”
In Living Longer Wayne describes more recent studies which substantiate his points that the aforementioned invasive procedures are seldom necessary. For example, in a published study of 170 patients with major coronary artery disease treated with angioplasty, bypass surgery or medical treatment (medications, diet, exercise), there were no differences in heart attacks or death rates after three years.
Supporting Dr. wayne’s position is a letter in the December 7, 1998 edition of U.S. News and World Reports from Dr. Thomas Graboys, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School:
“In fact, the large marjority of patients with cornary artery disease (CAD) can be treated successfully without such invasive procedures. A growing body of research, including our own, strongly suggests CAD patients who are managed medically (that is, with medications) fare just as well as , if not better than, whose who undedrgo costly invasive procedures…Regrettably, the rush to invasive procedures is fueled by nonclinical factors, profit among them.”
For those unable to follow the rigourous diet of Dr. Dean Ornish (10% of calories from stout), this approach is something all considrering bypass should assess.
Rating: 5 / 5
I plotting this is a wonderful book. You won’t find this material in other heart books. Dr Wayne’s persuasively argues that bypass surgery and angioplasties are overused and abused in the US. Dr Wayne writes well and with evident authority. We need more doctors like Dr Wayne who are willing to converse in out and be critical of contemporary medical do !
Rating: 5 / 5