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400 Patients Sue Kentucky Hospital and 11 Cardiologists Over Unnecessary Procedures
After undergoing more than two dozen cardiac procedures over a period of twenty years at St. Joseph Hospital in London, Kentucky, a patient was told by an outside cardiologist in Lexington that a recent procedure had been performed unnecessarily on an artery that was barely blocked. “I would have not carried out this procedure,” the cardiologist, Michael R. Jones, wrote in a letter to the patient. The story is recounted in an article published on Sunday in USA Today and the Louisville Courier-Journal, about the latest and perhaps the biggest case yet to surface over unnecessary cardiac procedures. More…
Source: CardioBrief - February 17, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: Interventional Cardiology & Surgery Policy & Ethics Catholic Health Initiatives Mark Midei New York Times st joseph medical center United States Department of Justice unnecessary stents Source Type: blogs
Interventional Cardiology And The Rejection Of Science
–Prominent interventional cardiologist says clinical trials are slowing progress In their eagerness to embrace a glorious future of ever more spectacular technology-based advances, interventional cardiology— a subspecialty never exactly known for caution, patience, or self reflection— is poised to reject science, evidence-based medicine, and randomized controlled trials. “Generating and publishing evidence is a tedious job,”...Click here to continue reading...
Source: CardioBrief - July 22, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: Interventional Cardiology & Surgery People, Places & Events Policy & Ethics clinical trials Evidence-based medicine PFO closure RCTs renal denervation stents Source Type: blogs
Missouri Board Issues Emergency Suspension Of Cardiologist Accused Of Implanting Unnecessary Stents
A Missouri cardiologist who has been accused of unnecessarily implanting stents in six patients has been temporarily barred from seeing patients. The Missouri State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts, which licenses physicians and investigates and disciplines physicians in cases of accused misconduct, issued an emergency suspension of the cardiologist’s license to practice, according to a news report by Jeremy Kohler published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Cardiologist Randall E. Meyer, of Central Missouri Cardiology in Jefferson City, has filed documents disputing the charges. He can seek reinstatement o...
Source: CardioBrief - January 2, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: Interventional Cardiology & Surgery Policy & Ethics appropriate use PCI St. Louis Post-Dispatch stents unnecessary stents Source Type: blogs
Required Reading: Cardiologists Gone Wild
At first glance it might appear that cardiologists are the worst people on earth. In his blog post “Cardiologists and Chinese Robbers“ Scott Alexander lists a long string of horrible misdeeds that might lead you to prefer an encounter in a dark alley with a Mafia henchman instead of a cardiologist: You may have read about one...Click here to continue reading...
Source: CardioBrief - September 21, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: People, Places & Events Policy & Ethics Prevention, Epidemiology & Outcomes cardiologists Source Type: blogs
Survey: Docs Think Cardiologists Are Rude, Dismissive, And Aggressive
Nearly a third of English doctors report that they are subject to rude, dismissive and aggressive (RDA) behavior more than once a week. Cardiologists are among the specialists who are most likely to be responsible for this “workplace incivility.” These are some of the chief findings of a survey published in Clinical Medicine of 606 British doctors at three...Click here to continue reading...
Source: CardioBrief - December 7, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: People, Places & Events Policy & Ethics bad behavior cardiologists rude survey Source Type: blogs
Debaters At Interventional Cardiology Meeting Literally Put The Gloves On
The world’s premiere interventional cardiology meeting now features cardiologists wearing boxing shorts and gloves. The Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting in Washington, DC kicked off with a “Saturday Night Fights” theme for its debate session, and the participants– nearly all greying, eminent male interventional cardiologists– adopted the theme whole-heartedly. All lovey-dovey at the start of #TCT2016 fights pic.twitter.com/upGprIcxkQ...Click here to continue reading...
Source: CardioBrief - October 30, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: People, Places & Events Policy & Ethics Cardiology Saturday Night Fights sexism TCT women in cardiology Source Type: blogs
Survey: Yearly Pay For Cardiologists Hits $542,000
A newly-released survey finds that compensation for cardiologists grew to $542,000 in 2014. This represents a $30,000 increase from 2013 and brings the total close to the previous high of $548,000 in 2012. The increase may reflect an over-representation of private physicians in the survey released by MedAxiom Consulting, which bills itself as the nation’s top cardiovascular service...Click here to continue reading...
Source: CardioBrief - September 15, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: People, Places & Events Policy & Ethics Uncategorized cardiologist pay salary Source Type: blogs
Pioneering Interventional Cardiologist Defends Unorthodox Practices
–Bernhard Meier explains why he seals plaques and thinks PFO closure is ‘the best procedure in interventional cardiology’ Recently I wrote about an article by Bernhard Meier, a top interventional cardiologist, in which he rejected the idea that evidence based on randomized controlled trials should be the basis for the practice of interventional cardiology. In...Click here to continue reading...
Source: CardioBrief - August 1, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: Interventional Cardiology & Surgery People, Places & Events Policy & Ethics eminence-based medicine Evidence-based medicine PFO plaque sealing Source Type: blogs
Are Cardiologists Worried About Being Accused Of Unnecessary PCI?
In the last week two cases highlighted, yet again, the continuing shift in standards regarding PCI. In his interventional cardiology blog on CardioExchange, Rick Lange asks cardiologists: Could You Be Accused of Doing Unnecessary PCI? “Public confidence is eroding as the number of reports of physician suspensions and monetary penalties for unnecessary PCIs grow. Accordingly, patients are questioning use of PCI, even when it is indicated and advisable.” …. “Have investigations into unnecessary stenting changed your interventional practice? How so?”
Source: CardioBrief - January 8, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: Interventional Cardiology & Surgery PCI stents Source Type: blogs
Cardiology Group Withdraws ‘Choosing Wisely’ Recommendation
In the end it wasn’t wisdom for the ages. The American College of Cardiology said today that it was withdrawing one of its five recommendations in the “Choosing Wisely” campaign. In 2012 the ACC recommended that heart attack patients should have only their culprit artery unblocked. It said that patients and caregivers should question whether complete revascularization of all nonculprit lesions in heart attack patients should be performed. The original recommendation was based on non-randomized studies suggesting that treating all significantly blocked vessels in heart attack patients could be harmfu...
Source: CardioBrief - September 22, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: Interventional Cardiology & Surgery People, Places & Events Policy & Ethics American College of Cardiology Choosing Wisely guidelines primary PCI stents Source Type: blogs
Interventional Cardiologists Face Major Obstruction In Treatment Of Total Blockages
–Deep divisions over how CTO patients should be treated. In recent years ambitious interventional cardiologists have started to perform PCI on chronic total occlusions (CTOs), though these lesions have long been recognized as among the most difficult to successfully treat. Many other physicians, including some prominent interventional cardiologists, have expressed grave concerns about this expansion...Click here to continue reading...
Source: CardioBrief - March 29, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: Interventional Cardiology & Surgery People, Places & Events Policy & Ethics chronic total occlusion CTO Source Type: blogs
A Paper In The American Journal Of Cardiology About A Study That Was ‘Not Real’
New allegations about scientific misconduct have been raised about a cardiology group in a hospital in Italy. Some of the allegations come from a surprising source: Maria Grazia Modena, the former and highly prominent chief of cardiology at the hospital where the research was said to have been performed. The new allegations are the latest episode in an ongoing saga that began last year involving many of the same researchers, including Maria Grazia Modena herself. As I first reported last November, nine Italian cardiologists were arrested as part of a broad investigation into serious medical misconduct at Modena More…
Source: CardioBrief - October 22, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: Uncategorized American Journal of Cardiology Italy Maria Grazia Modena scientific misconduct Source Type: blogs
Newly Elected European Society Of Cardiology President Co-Authored Hundreds Of Papers With Don Poldermans
The ESC today announced that Jeroen Bax, a Dutch cardiologist, will serve as the group’s President Elect for the next two years before becoming President starting in 2016. Bax is a professor of cardiology at Leiden University Medical Center. Bax is also known for his very close collaboration with Don Poldermans, the disgraced Dutch researcher who has been accused of significant and multiple examples of scientific misconduct. … Click here to read the full post on Forbes.
Source: CardioBrief - September 1, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: People, Places & Events Policy & Ethics Bax European Society of Cardiology Poldermans Source Type: blogs
New ORBITA Findings May Offer Modest Symptomatic Pain Relief To Interventional Cardiologists
New data presented at EuroPCR from the much debated ORBITA trial may provide some modest temporary lessening of the pain felt by interventional cardiologists in response to the initial negative ORBITA findings. But the pain relief is likely to be only temporary, and might even be fairly compared to a placebo effect, since the major...Click here to continue reading...
Source: CardioBrief - May 22, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: Interventional Cardiology & Surgery People, Places & Events Policy & Ethics ORBITA PCI sham controls stable angina stents Source Type: blogs
Cardiology Goes Better With Coke
At the bottom of this post I’ve reprinted an email cardiologists are receiving from the American College of Cardiology. See the bottom of the message for the disclosure that Coca Cola is paying for this educational program. I don’t have much to say about this though I wonder what the faculty of this program will say about the role of sugared soda and obesity. I also wonder what position the ACC will take on public health efforts to curb sugar consumption. There’s no reason to be surprised about this. Last year the president of the ACC More…
Source: CardioBrief - July 23, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: Policy & Ethics Prevention, Epidemiology & Outcomes American College of Cardiology american heart association Coca Cola diabetes national heart lung and blood institute obesity soda sugar Source Type: blogs
