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What Is The Advantage Of A Nuclear Stress Test Vs Stress Test - Articles
More on Treadmill Stress Tests...
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DiseaseProof
Posted
Thu 31 Jul 2008 6:16am
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Last monthNBC’sTim Russert suffered a fatal heart attackat age 58, shocking the country. He recently passed a stress test, so how could this happen? In a post Dr. Fuhrman explains whystress tests fail to determine heart attack risk. Here’s an excerpt:
A stress test is not an accurate test for determining the risk of a heart attack. A stress ...
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The battle for asymptomatic disease
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Dr. William D.
Posted
Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:16pm
The heart disease revenue pie is shrinking. So is the "serving size" being shared by competing hospitals.
In other words, as more hospitals open heart programs, there is more competition for the same heart patient. Throw into the mix the drop in "acute" presentations of disease, probably due to the now widespread prescribing of statin ...
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Bait and switch
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Dr. William D.
Posted
Sun 24 Aug 2008 9:45pm
“ When banks compete, you win .”
The TV ad opens with a 60-something man sitting in his living room, talking to a three-piece suit-clad, 30-something banker. The older man is explaining to the dismayed younger man why he’s going to use Lending Tree loan service for a home loan.
“But Dad, I’m you’re son!” the younger whines.
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Beware the "false positive" stress test
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Dr. William D.
Posted
Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:17pm
There's a widely-known (among cardiologists) problem with nuclear stress tests. It's called the "false positive." (Nuclear stress tests are known as stress Cardiolites, stress thalliums, stress Myoviews, persantine stress tests, adenosine stress tests)
Stress tests, nuclear and otherwise, are helpful for identifying areas of poor bloo ...
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Increasing sales, growing the business
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Dr. William D.
Posted
Thu 23 Oct 2008 2:34pm
I continue my portrayal of the fictional hospital, St. Matthews. Though fictional, it is based on real facts, figures, and situations.
Despite their success, administrators at St. Matthews’s Hospital continually fret over how to further expand their enterprise.
Market share can be increased, of course, by competing effectively with other h ...
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Non-profit hospitals
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Dr. William D.
Posted
Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:17pm
Take a look at your local hospital and you're likely to notice several curious things:
1) It is likely non-profit , meaning it enjoys a non-profit status with the Internal Revenue Service and enjoys the tax benefits of not paying taxes on profits. This provides an advantage to tax-protected hospitals. 70% or more of hospitals in the U ...
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Heart disease "reversal" by stress test
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Dr. William D.
Posted
Fri 12 Sep 2008 8:52am
Here's an interesting example of a 71-year old man who achieved "reversal" of an abnormality by a nuclear stress test.
This man underwent bypass surgery around 10 years ago, two stents three years ago. A nuclear stress test in April, 2005 showed an area of poor blood flow in the front of the heart. On the images, normal blood flow is sh ...
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