The experts know less than they care to admit.
I know one thing - I would never let anyone roto-rooter my blood vessels. Angioplasty and bypass surgery are no more effective in the long term (5 years +) than drug therapy. The risks are real; the benefits highly questionable.
Don’t expect a cardiologist to agree. Their knee-jerk resonse is to fiddle with your arteries and heart, in spite of the evidence showing it is not the safest or best treatment option.
Yes, there are many other procedures that are questionable by other Doctors... the problem is who to listen to.
My gosh, in the last few years, what use to be know bad for you is now good and visa versa... It only goes to show that sometimes medicine and other fields are varying...ie, they don’t always know what they are talking about, (Reminds me of other scientific fields).
It’s kind of like a jig-saw puzzle...you have to fit the pieces together yourself.
In the end, you have to go with you you feel you know and hope for the best. Most of what we know today will be gibberish in the future anyway...
Completely agree.
Cardiologists are second only to general surgeons in their absolutely unjustified arrogance.
I would argue a bit about that statement, at least in my specific case.
In 1974 I had a massive heart attack (LAD blocked) and was left with nothing but angina and a miserable existence. Medicine did little or nothing to help, and the future looked awfully bleak.
Then in 1981 I had 6 coronary bypasses, and it was as if the surgeons had passed a miracle. No more angina, no more coronary pain. I could walk 5 or 6 miles at a semi-trot without angina.
The surgery was 28 years ago, and the bypasses are still open. I live an active life. And that's thanks to CAGB.
You are so full of it.
If you ever have to go to an ER with a heart attack in progress, I bet you change your mind.