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Hi! I'm a 17 yr old Cerritos College chemistry major interested in persuing a career in medicine, and considering cardiology as my specialty. I'd like to know what made you go into cardiology, as well as these questions:
Why are cardiologists and cardiac surgeons so respected and highly paid?
Why is cardiac surgery a fellowship of general surgery; they don't have anything to do w/ each other!
Would this diet be effective for a sedentary, overweight, hypertensive, hyperlipidemic male who had several angioplasties and will go into heart failure unless something is done, such as:
1. An adequate calorie diet consisting of
53% lean protein
37% MUFAs
10% low glycemic load carbohydrates
2. Daily aerobic and resistance exercise
3. An angiotensin-II receptor antagonist plus a statin
My theory behind the diet is this: According to Dr Richard Veech of the NIH, the heart muscle works 25-30% more efficiently when burning ketones for fuel as compared to burning glucose, according to this paper: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117878767/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0. Also, MUFAs have been proven to raise HDL, lower LDL, and lower cholesterol: http://www.peanut-institute.org/images/1009-1015-Kris-Etherton.pdf. In addition to lowering blood pressure: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/294/19/2455. Basically, by reducing carbohydrate intake to a minimum and increasing the percentage of MUFAs in the diet to the maximum effective dose, it forces your body to burn the fat in your diet and stored in your body, inducing the mild ketosis that Veech has found to increase cardiac efficiency, as well as causing loss of excess body fat; the MUFAs themselves lower blood pressure, and improve serum lipids. W/ regular exercise and the medication, it gets even better.
What's the lifestyle of an interventional cardiologist/EP? I suppose on Mondays and Fridays it's office consults, Tuesdays-Thursdays it's in the cath/EP lab, and Saturdays and Sundays you're on-call. There's probably research mixed in their too, I bet.
Would it be advantageous, after general cardiology fellowship and interventional cardiology advanced fellowship, to do another advanced fellowship in EP or critical care medicine?
Do they offer rotations in interventional cardiology/EP or cardiac critical care medicine to third and fourth year med students? What about observerships to pre-med students?
Thanks so much!!!
Why are cardiologists and cardiac surgeons so respected and highly paid?
Why is cardiac surgery a fellowship of general surgery; they don't have anything to do w/ each other!
Would this diet be effective for a sedentary, overweight, hypertensive, hyperlipidemic male who had several angioplasties and will go into heart failure unless something is done, such as:
1. An adequate calorie diet consisting of
53% lean protein
37% MUFAs
10% low glycemic load carbohydrates
2. Daily aerobic and resistance exercise
3. An angiotensin-II receptor antagonist plus a statin
My theory behind the diet is this: According to Dr Richard Veech of the NIH, the heart muscle works 25-30% more efficiently when burning ketones for fuel as compared to burning glucose, according to this paper: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117878767/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0. Also, MUFAs have been proven to raise HDL, lower LDL, and lower cholesterol: http://www.peanut-institute.org/images/1009-1015-Kris-Etherton.pdf. In addition to lowering blood pressure: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/294/19/2455. Basically, by reducing carbohydrate intake to a minimum and increasing the percentage of MUFAs in the diet to the maximum effective dose, it forces your body to burn the fat in your diet and stored in your body, inducing the mild ketosis that Veech has found to increase cardiac efficiency, as well as causing loss of excess body fat; the MUFAs themselves lower blood pressure, and improve serum lipids. W/ regular exercise and the medication, it gets even better.
What's the lifestyle of an interventional cardiologist/EP? I suppose on Mondays and Fridays it's office consults, Tuesdays-Thursdays it's in the cath/EP lab, and Saturdays and Sundays you're on-call. There's probably research mixed in their too, I bet.
Would it be advantageous, after general cardiology fellowship and interventional cardiology advanced fellowship, to do another advanced fellowship in EP or critical care medicine?
Do they offer rotations in interventional cardiology/EP or cardiac critical care medicine to third and fourth year med students? What about observerships to pre-med students?
Thanks so much!!!
