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

American Thinker ^ | 01/07/2023 | Dr. Ted Noel, MD

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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.

[Political Junkie Too]

It baffles me that the vaccine defenders always speak with:

1. 100% certainty that the vaccine was NOT the cause of whatever ailment is being discussed, and
2. 100% certainty that some other rare explanation IS the cause of the ailment being discussed,

without ANY actual facts about the person who fell ill.

Any discussion of the POSSIBILITY that a vaccine-related cause is immediately dismissed absolutely as an impossible conclusion.

-PJ