I learned about a variation on the Holiday Heart Syndrome last night. Talking to a fellow physician friend, he told me he had to stop smoking weed because it caused atrial fibrillation (AF). [caption id="attachment_2297" align="alignnone" width="1013"] Could This Be Your Doctor?[/caption] I trust it is not too radical, the idea of a…
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About: Dr. Patrick Neustatter
Recent Posts by Dr. Patrick Neustatter
How to Avoid Dr. Death
On February 16th, The Washington Post and the Dallas Morning News had an article about a Texas neurosurgeon, Christopher Duntsch, nicknamed “Dr. Death,” who was taken to court after he performed a spinal fusion on a 74-year-old woman. Duntsch left one nerve root severed and another with a screw through it, causing the patient…
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Sending Your Male Patients to the Gynecologist
It was a bit disorientating telling this guy I was seeing in the clinic that the painful swelling he presented with was being reported by the radiologist as possibly being scar tissue from a cesarean section or endometriosis. Endometriosis is a condition where the endometrium (the inside lining of the uterus that normally gets shed…
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How to Make Your Resolutions Happen
Good health has a lot to do with your health habits. After the excesses of the holiday season, many people are adopting New Years resolutions to try to be more healthy. Whether you are trying to lose weight, get fit, quit smoking, cut down on the drinking, the hard part is putting those resolutions into…
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