Healthy Hearts - Beginning

   Being a doctor is a mighty responsibility and practicing as a heart specialist is much more overwhelming job. It extracts away many things from you, your leisure time, your youth, your holidays, your nights, your family time and so on. Unless one is passionate about it, he (‘he’ is gender neutral here) cannot continue doing it. If someone is just doing it for money it will not work out and failure is almost certain. Having written so much about it I love being a cardiologist. I enjoy the thrill, I feel enormous joy when I save somebodies life. I feel blessed to get this opportunity to make the world a healthier place. My routine day is filled with all sorts of surprises and I learn tremendous number of new things every day and yes its been a joyful journey so far.

    Dr Eugene Braunwald is like god for every cardiologist. I heard him quoting in one of his speeches (https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/ep-4-eugene-braunwald-career-advice-from-cardiology/id943791321?i=1000327655021) “success of a doctor can be judged by three things 1 how good he is clinically – means how good his diagnostic skill or treatment is. 2 how expert he is as a teacher – means how he trains the junior doctors who work with him and 3 how much useful research he does.” I am deeply influenced by these words and try to judge my success on these parameters.  But I think one more aspect should be added to it. That is ‘how successfully a doctor disseminates a scientific knowledge in the society.’ Common man should be educated by healthcare experts. He is being misguided by many quacks and I am absolutely sure this must be costing thousands of lives. Motivated by above thinking I wanted to write something for general people which can help them to take proper medical decisions. Online blogs seem to be a good platform for my intended purpose.  In my serial blogs I will post information mainly about cardiac diseases one by one in simple scientific language.

                                                                                              Dr. Tamiruddin A. Danwade

                                                                                             Consultant Interventional Cardiologist,

                                                                                             Apollo Hospital, Navi Mumbai.