by S. Russell Vester, MD
6. July 2010 06:53
So how do you start a robotic program? First and foremost everyone involved has to recognize that it is a program all stakeholders need to support. It is not something you can dabble in and hope to be successful. For our cardiac robotic program we st...
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by S. Russell Vester, MD
29. June 2010 11:04
Robotic heart surgery. What is it and on whom should it be applied? It’s amazing how many people know about it. For all that’s on the internet about it, it’s equally amazing how little folks actually understand about where it fi...
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by S. Russell Vester, MD
14. June 2010 10:21
This week I'm going to take a break from crabbing about the general lunacy of cigarette smoking and give you a look at one of my pet peeves in our professional literature. Every doctor has to work to keep up with the advances in medical knowledge...
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by S. Russell Vester, MD
7. June 2010 10:03
If you are thinking about quitting smoking, let me give you some thoughts to help strengthen and maintain your resolve. Think about smoking this way. Think of it as premature aging. I operated on a guy today for his second coronary bypass procedure...
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by S. Russell Vester, MD
1. June 2010 12:44
When I saw that hand holding a cigarette come out of that driver’s window my earlier feelings of sympathy and compassion instantly changed to disappointment. Great disappointment. Here’s why.
In order of bad to worse, these are the error...
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by S. Russell Vester, MD
24. May 2010 09:15
When I was in the middle of the One Lap of America race two weeks ago, I had to witness something that turned out to be quite upsetting. This small event turned out to be a perfect example of many things that are problematic with much of our soci...
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by S. Russell Vester, MD
10. May 2010 09:48
I’m back from the One Lap of America race. To all my sponsors and donors, thank you on behalf of the American Heart Association. It was quite a week. We had some major car problems that took the first three days of the event to get ironed o...
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by S. Russell Vester, MD
27. April 2010 09:26
I need to drop the political line of thought for this week and go back to the obesity issue. My motivation to do this comes from one of my Open Heart Recovery nurses. Having read my blogs about our national weight problem, this nurse commented that I...
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by S. Russell Vester, MD
20. April 2010 08:23
When I started this blog, I mentioned that from time to time I would from comment on political issues that were related to healthcare. This is one of them. Healthcare politics is certainly one of the key topics of the moment.
As a third generati...
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by S. Russell Vester, MD
14. April 2010 10:29
Sorry about being a couple of days late with this entry. This is my ninth straight day of work without a break. And I don’t get paid extra for nights, weekends or emergencies. But this is not a whining session. I’m not looking for sym...
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