Diane Radford, M.D.

Archive for April, 2013

April 25, 2013
Radiation for Breast Cancer: Protecting the Heart

The paper by Darby and others published March 14th 2013 in the New England Journal of Medicine has caused a firestorm of media coverage. The authors report on over 900 women who had been treated for breast cancer in Scandinavia who suffered a major coronary event and compared them with over twelve hundred control individuals. The Swedish women were treated between 1958 and 2001, the Danish women 1977 to 2000. The authors concluded that the risk…

April 22, 2013
On Call, Cardiac Surgery, and Cupid

The article by Dr. Pauline Chen in the New York Times on trainee physicians work hours prompted my memory of my own call extravaganza. As an intern on the heart surgery service I shared the workload with two other interns, David and Rick (all names have been changed). The service was a busy one, one of the busiest in the city. That Monday morning in 1987, David signed out to us at 6am before leaving for a weeklong vacation. Rick and I…

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