The Differential Diagnosis On Damar Hamlin’s Broken Heart: Without seeing Hamlin’s medical chart, everything is just a guess, but there are signs that some diagnoses are more likely than others

Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin makes a tackle, gets up, and immediately falls down. Every commentator immediately declares that Hamlin’s medical emergency is due to “commotio cordis.” Or so it seems. Any discussion of the possibility of the COVID vaccine’s involvement is “lies.”

I serve as a medical information resource to an Orlando political talk show called “The American Adversaries.” So, when this very public medical event happened, I became Chris Hart’s on-air guest. His co-host is Mike McBath, a former Detroit Lions player who is still actively involved in player issues. While doing my homework, I found lots of doctors making diagnoses. It did not matter whether the vocalist was in the front or the back row, he was singing in unison with the choir. This raises a serious question for these doctors. “Didn’t your medical school make you take a class on ‘differential diagnosis’?”

Let me ‘splain this for you. If you have high blood pressure, your doctor should do a good history, an examination, and some tests before he decides on the proper treatment for your blood pressure. Do you have:

Morbid obesity
Family history of hypertension
Periodic sweating and fast heartbeat
Or (many more)?

The point of all this is to make certain that the doctor is tackling the actual problem causing the high blood pressure. If he doesn’t, you’ll get a treatment that, at best, won’t help and, at worst, might be dangerous. Most of us are familiar with this in the epidemic of diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Lots of bright kids are getting (mal)treated with medications when their only problem is that they’re bored in school. The proper treatment for them is more challenging school work, not medications.

Just as hypertension and bored kids need proper diagnoses, the Damar Hamlin incident cries out for the same. And all those doctors making armchair diagnoses should slow down until they see all of Hamlin’s chart. In particular, they should stop claiming that anyone who implicates the clot shot is spreading misinformation. I haven’t seen Hamlin’s chart, so I can’t say for certain what caused his cardiac arrest, but I can be responsible and explain what may have happened. Notice that I said “may,” not “did.”

There are at least four possibilities that must be in the differential for Hamlin’s arrest.

1. Commotio cordis

2. Sudden death following COVID vaccination

3. Adrenaline-induced lethal arrhythmia following chronic COVID vaccination-induced myocarditis

4. Chronic underlying structural or electrophysiological cardiac pathology manifesting at that moment.

“Lots of bright kids are getting (mal)treated with medications when their only problem is that they’re bored in school. The proper treatment for them is more challenging school work, not medications.”

That is possible but doesn’t cover a youth that actually has the illness.

Both my kids had it and I did too. ADHD for my kids meant that their bodies were continually exhausted. This meant that their bodies were trying to go to sleep. Their minds however were trying to stop that so it pumps boosters like adrenaline into the body to try to offset the lack of energy and exhaustion. But putting uppers into a body like this, cause a frustration level and the child does things not knowing what to do to stop it. It becomes impulsiveness. This is why the docs don’t give a patient downers to combat it. That would only make the brain pump more uppers into the body to stop the exhausted body. They use uppers to satisfy the brain before it goes hog wild. One major one is Ritalin.

wy69

Invest away, s---k and f---.

99.25% 1. Commotio cordis
0.25% 2. Sudden death following COVID vaccination
0.25% 3. Adrenaline-induced lethal arrhythmia following chronic COVID vaccination-induced myocarditis
0.25% 4. Chronic underlying structural or electrophysiological cardiac pathology manifesting at that moment.

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