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The Skeptical Cardiologist's avatar

John,

I remember having to cover the OR TEE service at Audubon hospital on occasion and finding myself involved in a bizarre procedure I had never encountered before. During these TMR procedures I was instructed to yell "hit" when micro bubbles appeared in the left ventricle. It seemed ridiculous that I was doing this and I was shocked that my colleagues were referring patients for the procedure.

At the same time we were running EECP beds, a noninvasive (but time-consuming) procedure for refractory angina which had little supportive evidence from placebo-controlled RCTS. But patients definitely felt better and studies to this today confirm this improvement which is likely due mostly to placebo effect (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7273423/)

Anthony

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Thomas Marsh's avatar

How timely an article...how were the doctors fooled about this cardiac procedure? Oh please, can we expand into this COVID exercise with doctors stating falsehoods too..to their patients...a safe and effective “vaccine”...and that HCQ/ivermectin are BAD...How about...minimal addiction from those new strong opiate drugs several years ago. These are the days of the Big Pharma influences at the very top of the medical food chain...Congress and thru the FDA...political control most evident of the very people who treat US....more like medical political officers now. I greave for medicine of the past...where training was truly interested in a doctor-patient relationship built on trust...too many doctors still think this “vaccine” is safe and effective.

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