It Happened So Fast … I Guess, Yes, I Was Lucky

I S the Imagery Debate over ? I F so , What Was It about ?

I remember...it was December.

William Osler is quoted as saying, "Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life-the poetry of the commonplace, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs."(1) A family physician reflects how he continues to derive sustenance from having cared ...

Oh yes, I remember it well.

A solution to get the problem off, have you found it? Really? What kind of solution do you resolve the problem? From what sources? Well, there are so many questions that we utter every day. No matter how you will get the solution, it will mean better. You can take the reference from some books. And the ah yes i remember it well is one book that we really recommend you to read, to get more solut...

Yes, I wear the Hijab. Yes, I am a Doctor.

No, I am not a patient. Yes, I can hear you. Yes, I can still use my stethoscope. Yes, I can speak English. Yes, I can speak Arabic you’re welcome. I am honoured that you were hoping I would call your name in the waiting room. How can I help? We are the same. Yes, I have changed this hijab and covered it with a surgical balaclava, I am sterile. No, I do not want to wear this sterile green drape...

Sudden death in mitral regurgitation: why was I so surprised?

In this issue of JACC, Grigioni et al. (1) report on 348 patients with mitral regurgitation due to a flail mitral leaflet. During a four-year follow-up, 25 of these patients (7%) died suddenly. I have had the opportunity to speak or write about valvular heart disease on literally hundreds of occasions over the past 20 years. While always emphasizing the risk of sudden death in a patient with ao...