Re: Plavix (is my doctor a quack?)
From: Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD (nospam6_at_heartmdphd.com)
Date: 11/29/04
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Date: 29 Nov 2004 10:10:02 -0800
"outrider" <outrider@despammed.com> wrote in message news:<1101719324.402761.293020@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>...
> oreo123 wrote:
> > Here it is in a nutshell....
> >
> > No family history of heart disease no stroke. At 49 I had blocked
> right
> > coronary artery heart attack... Male, non smoker, 5'8" 180 pounds.
> Arrived
> > too late and just cath'd. Placed on lipitor, folic acid, lisinopril,
> toprol
> > (originally metoprolol)... Three years later - Sept 04 had stress
> test and
> > cath'd. Placed 3 stents. One artery - left side - had gone from 40 to
> 80
> > percent blocked in 3 years and was stented. Other stent was from
> heart
> > attack which was now closed to 90 percent. Plus another stent
> downstream.
> > Was placed on plavix. Then almost 3 weeks ago had a stroke. Had
> double
> > vision and then left side went numb. Regained left side - vision is
> still
> > double. Placed on cumodin. In hosp they found hole between heart
> chambers
> > that 20 percent of us have. They looked at legs for clots and found
> nothing.
> >
> > Here are chol numbers before 3 stents installed and before the
> stroke... Yes
> > I modified diet intensly but we are not discussing that here. Well
> yet.
> > 5/28/04 Friday.
> >
> > B.P. 100 over 64 and heart rate was 56.
> >
> > Chol 111 <200 mg/dl
> >
> > Trig 65 <150 mg/dl
> >
> > HDL-C 42 >41 mg/dl
> >
> > LDL-C 56 <100 mg/dl
> >
> > Risk factor 2.6 0-5.1
> >
> > PSA .43 0 - 4.0 ng/dl
> >
> > And 4 years ago not fasting these were the numbers...
> >
> > total 239
> > hdl is 39
> >
> > ratio is 6.1
> >
> > I cannot understand why I had a stroke while being so good with diet
> and
> > meds. One more mistake was not having long term disabilty insurance
> as I am
> > , well was, self employed.
> >
> > I had someone tell me yesterday that doctors get a commission from
> drug
> > companies for placing someone on drugs. Is that true? Supposedly that
> was
> > reported in AARP.?
>
> Yes pharma gives "gifts" to physicians who presecribe their meds.
There are some companies (pharma) that give "gifts" to physicians in
hopes that these physicians will change their prescribing patterns.
This is not the same as a commission. This is called marketing. It
is analogous to getting a free balloon at a grocery store compliments
of a local bank that wants your business. Judge it as you will
(shrug).
You remain in my prayers, dear Zee whom I love, in Christ's holy name.
Hope you have received the book I have sent you by now.
Servant to the humblest person in the universe,
Andrew
-- Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD Board-Certified Cardiologist http://www.heartmdphd.com/ ** Who is the humblest person in the universe? http://makeashorterlink.com/?L26062048 What is all this about? http://makeashorterlink.com/?R20632B48 Is this spam? http://makeashorterlink.com/?N69721867
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