分类目录归档：heart
The most complex problems in our time
can be solved with simple techniques,
if we are able to dream.
As a child, I discovered that creativity is the key
to cross from dreams to reality.
I learned this
At some point in our lives,
almost every one of us will have our heart broken.
My patient Kathy planned her wedding when she was in middle school.
She would meet her future husband
by age 27,
get enga
When I was 13,
I lost my grandfather to a silent heart attack.
What happened to be more shocking was that at 75,
grandpa was really normal, healthy and energetic,
but he was diabetic.
Learning all of
I'd like to tell you about a patient named Donna.
In this photograph, Donna was in her mid-70s,
a vigorous, healthy woman,
the matriarch of a large clan.
She had a family history of heart disease, how
No other organ,
perhaps no other object in human life,
is as imbued with metaphor and meaning as the human heart.
Over the course of history,
the heart has been a symbol of our emotional lives.
It was
I believe there is beauty
in hearing the voices of people who haven't been heard.
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I am proudly named Alicia after my grandma.
She dedicated her life to women's health as an obstetrician,
in a time when women were rarely allowed to obtain medical degrees.
We lost her to a heart atta
so before I became a dermatologist I
started in general medicine as as most
dermatologists do in Britain at the end
of that time I went off to Australia
about 20 years ago what you learn when
you go t
For most of history,
humans had no idea what purpose the heart served.
In fact, the organ so confused Leonardo da Vinci,
that he gave up studying it.
Although everyone could feel their own heart beati
Approximately 7 million people around the world die from heart attacks every year,
and cardiovascular disease,
which causes heart attacks and other problems like strokes,
is the world's leading kille