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Who is guiding the guidelines?

Posted in bio ethics, Cardiology quotes, Centre for cardiology unlearninng, Medcal research, Medical education, Medical ethics, medical quotes, Quotes, Science and Religion, Uncategorized, wisdom in cardiology, tagged , , , , , on July 14, 2022|

Who is the guiding the guidelines, which have become omnipresent & omnipotent ?

I don’t know really. Some good people I guess. But, the doubt creeps in when they try to coerce it on us.

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What is the true success for a scientist ?

Posted in bio ethics, Histroy of medicine, Medcal research, Medical education, Medical ethics, medical quotes, tagged , , , , , , on November 26, 2021|

What is the true success in a scientific career?

It is not the number of publications in journals or getting those big awards or memberships in prestigious scientific societies. True success is “something else,” says the Nobel Medical Laureate  Dr Willam Kaelin 

Great thoughts. Just wondering, what are those elements beyond our controls he was alluding to?

 

Video courtesy and thanks : http://www.nobel.org

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Let us Ignore this smart study on statins…one more time !

Posted in Diabetes and Heart, lipids lipid metabolism, Medical ethics, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on October 5, 2021|

This is not a breaking news story. It’s the same old secret that was exposed in JUPITER  trial with Rosuvostatin 14 years ago. Yes, I am talking about the relationship between the usage of statin and the occurrence of diabetes. Now, we have this huge study on possible diabetes progression with statins. It’s not from a small journal to ignore. 

83 thousand patients data, the world’s largest series on link between statin therapy and diabetes.

 

This study has this to conclude

Diabetogenic statins

Something* happens as the statins antagonize the HMG COA  enzyme that resides within the delicate membranes of the endoplasmic reticulum inside the most specialized cells in our human body, called hepatocytes.

*What is that something?

Image source Umme Aiman et al Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics 5(3):181-5DOI: 10.4103/0976-500X.136097

How to go about this issue?

With-holding statin in as many as possible is the best thing for such diabetic  (non-diabetic?) patients. But, the more pragmatic option is to ignore these negative studies, and instead intensify diabetes management if it worsens. After all, we can’t afford to lose the prodigious evidence-based cardio-vascular protective effects of statins and earn the wrath of our patients and peers you know!

Further Interest

1.Mansi IA, Chansard M, Lingvay I, Zhang S, Halm EA, Alvarez CA. Association of Statin Therapy Initiation With Diabetes Progression: A Retrospective Matched-Cohort Study. JAMA Intern Med. Published online October 04, 2021. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.5714

2.Aiman U, Najmi A, Khan RA. Statin induced diabetes and its clinical implications. J Pharmacol Pharmacother. 2014 Jul;5(3):181-5. doi: 10.4103/0976-500X.136097. PMID: 25210397; PMCID: PMC4156828.

 

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“Unconquered” enemy of scientific research in medicine

Posted in bio ethics, Ethics in Medicine, evidence based cardiology, Medcal research, Medical education, Medical ethics, medical quotes, medical satistics, Two line sermons in cardiology, tagged , , , , , on October 3, 2021|

Is there a solution?

As I understand, we don’t have any. Maybe, we can try this.  No way, I can prevent it from appearing ridiculous for the mainstream scientists.

Truths often lie silently  buried deep (many times intentionally). They definitely deserve an intellectual resuscitation beyond the dirty world of data and evidence. Further, why should experience be considered as enemy of evidence ?

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Sailing the Osler’s ship of medicine in the third millennium

Posted in bio ethics, Cardiology -Patient page, cardiology -Therapeutics, Clinical cardiology, general medicine, Medical education, Medical ethics, medical quotes, Two line sermons in cardiology, tagged , , , , , , , on March 31, 2021|

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Principles of practice of medicine: 2020 version

Posted in Medical education, Medical ethics, medical quotes, Venkat quotes, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 14, 2021|

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Was the past perfect ? I don’t know, but the future looks tense… welcome on-board, to automated ACS management.

Posted in acute coroanry syndrome, Clinical cardiology, Ethics in Medicine, Hippocratic oath, history of cardiology, Histroy of medicine, Left main disease, Medical ethics, Primary PCI on June 23, 2019|

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Charles river esplanade ,Boston* : A healthy middle-aged man who was jogging quietly, while his heart was under intense scrutiny by the bionic eyes of Apple i-watch’s smart patch electrode. Suddenly, it detected some bizarre ST segment fragmentation (Seems it can predict in advance , Ischemic signals 10 minutes prior to onset of ACS ) The built-in cosmos direct GPS instantly alerted & summoned a titanium powered Space X drone that pulled the patient from the riverside to the nearest human wellness port .

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It dropped him through a remotely accessed split glass roof right inside the hybrid heart lab, to find , men and women chatting with flattish Artificial intelligence panels who readily allowed the robotic arms to hug the patient which engaged the coronary artery pushing radiation free magnetic gas found nothing inside and what would become a perfectly normal human coronary artery .

An amused resident robot gently plucked the patient from the cath table with sheepish laughter and called for another drone to drop the patient exactly in the same place from where he was picked up.The healthy hearted patient thanked the doctors profusely and continued his routine evening jog across the Charles of course with a 16-minute delay!

Next day . . .

Event auditing firm medi-logic mind congratulated the entire cardiac team and its digital health hub for the quality of the network and completing this daring coronary rescue mission in 16 minutes. While the drone to hospital roof time was 3 minutes, the coronary artery visualisation time was perfect.The auditing team had a special mention about the astonishing capability of Apple time watch algorithm that made sure that the patient’s evening routine was unaffected in spite of this life-threatening non cardiac pseudo-emergency. The crowning glory was, the entire expenses amounting to 250000 dollors (after a special money back discount coupon for the first false alarm) were taken care by the patient’s virtual insurance blockchain payment gateway.

*You have just read the news that wasn’t – January 2030 AD

Now, back to reality,

Stumbled on this news clip from pages of Times of India, (20-6-2019) months after I wrote the above piece. I wondered the chase between fact and fiction is becoming  really a close race.

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ORBITA trial : First let us do some harm . . . second , we shall . . !?

Posted in Cardiology -Interventional -PCI, Cardiology -Technology, Cardiology -Therapeutic dilemma, cardiology -Therapeutics, Cardiology -unresolved questions, cardiology journal club, cardiology wisdom, Medical education, Medical ethics, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 6, 2017| 2 Comments »

Cardiologists at confused cross roads !

Perils of  limited Intellect & Infinite greed  

When not so appropriately trained cardiologists  do Inappropriate things “use becomes misuse” . . . then, it won’t take much time for science to become total abuse. That’s what happened with the murky world of coronary stents .No surprise, it’s time to firefight the healers instead of the disease !

Now ,Comes the ORBITA study . Yes , it looks like a God sent path breaking trial that spits some harsh truths not only in cardiology, but also in behavioral ethics .Let us not work over time and hunt for any non-existing loop holes in ORBITA. Even if it has few, it can be condoned for sure as we have essentially lived out of flawed science  for too long  Injuring many Innocent hearts !

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Yes , its enforced premature funeral  times for a wonderful technology !

GIF Image courtesy http://www.tenor.com

Meanwhile, let us pray for a selective resurrection of  stenting in chronic coronary syndromes  and stop behaving like lesser professionals !

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Extremely  sorry . . . to  all those discerning academic folks , who are looking for a true scientific review of ORBITA , please look elsewhere !

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Is misinterpreting scientific papers an Academic crime ? No, its not, I do it often !

Posted in bio ethics, Medical ethics, medical quotes, medical satistics, tagged , , , , , , , on June 28, 2016| Leave a Comment »

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Medical Ignorance : Just Ignore it . . . move on , lets live the moment !

Posted in Medical ethics, tagged , on June 9, 2015| 1 Comment »

It is believed  (assumed ?), medical science is propelled by constant quest for knowledge and improvement in basic and clinical science that eventually would transform into better patient care and favorably impact  global health standards. We know the field of medicine is growing in an unimaginable pace.It’s obvious  any growth if uncontrolled or not properly guided is at risk of deviation from the main goal and ultimately  turn malignant and destroy the system which it’s supposed to guard.

How many times we realise the current treatment we administer would soon become obsolete and  even become dangerous ? What is the point in replacing treatment A by B , and  then  B is pulled over by C or D   and suddenly finding A is better than either C or D (and still we hesitate to fall back on A because its an oldie!)

Still ,this is what we call  as practicing ” State of the art medicine” How about a person who defies state of the art ,  and able to fore- see the futility which is threatening to be the  norm in modern medicine. Then,who is really Ignorant ?

I stumbled upon this  wonderful writing on this issue by ex BMJ editor by Richard Smith. Mind you , this was published way back in 1992, when the boom of  futile  ” Human  Health shopping”  was just about to explode !

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Link to The ethics  of  Ignorance

Post-amble

Don’t get confused .Noble professionals are  licensed to  practice  with whatever is published as science as long as their intentions are deemed to be genuine .Harm arising out of  practicing what’s considered best as on today is acceptable in the court of law.

Meanwhile , its a tragic truth, If you do not follow the herd , you are at risk of being punished even for goodness committed by you. Wisdom and conscience  can never win a legal battle ! If you have the courage try practice them !

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