To the Editor: It was with great interest that I read “Proposed Analysis of the Transition Process from Pediatric to Adult Care for Patients with Congenital Heart disease in Israel” (Burke and Beeber). As a pediatric cardiologist in practice for more than 20 years, I have many adolescent patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) who […]
Read More →Mindfulness is a form of meditation that focuses on nonjudgmental present moment awareness. The study by David S. Ludwig MD, PhD and Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD titled “Mindfulness in Medicine” suggests that the practice of mindfulness is not only beneficial for patients who may experience chronic illness, pain and substance abuse, but also to the physician’s […]
Read More →Ten years after becoming international news as the KGB-cum-British spy, taken out by shady Russian operatives using new radioactive poisionings, Alexander Litvinenko has made it back into the (medical) news in a recent case study in the Lancet. His doctors are free to describe his case, now that any state secrets involved have been exposed […]
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