So wonderful to hear that a few physicians are thinking these days!!

Jim Swayze wrote:

>Just got back from the cardiologist.  This is how the visit went.
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>Dr. Jack Schwade has been doing what he does since the year I was born, 1966.  He's a doctor's doctor and is the personal cardiologist of my doctor and many other in the North Texas area.  He walks into the room, introduces himself, sits down, and starts to read the information my doctor has sent over: the results of the echocardiogram and diagnosis letter from the other cardiologist from my visit a year ago, my blood work, blood pressure, resting heart rate, etc.  Ten minutes he sits there, occasionally looking over his glasses at me, occasionally stopping to jot a note.  Finally, he says "Sit down, Mr. Swayze."  I'm expecting that the heart surgery will begin immediately at this point.  "Dr. Eric XXXXXX is an excellent cardiologist", he says, "world renowned actually.  He's well published and respected internationally....  And he's WRONG.  So wrong, in fact, that I'm going to write him a letter and copy your physician.  I've done much work over the years with Dr. Ken Cooper over at the Cooper Aerobics Center, so I feel well qualified to say this: Judging from your performance on the treadmill and the physical characteristics of your heart, you have the heart of an elite athlete.  And your blood pressure is excellent.  Lipid profile unparalleled.  Every other indicator exemplary.  You were very wise to refuse to take the Toprol and the ACE inhibitor drugs and wise to refuse to go back to Dr. XXXXX.  I do, however, have a prescription for you: Stay away from world renowned cardiologists."
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>It was a thing of beauty.  Thank God.
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