In this episode I visit with Dr Richard Bach, the director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center at Washington University. We talk about everything from diagnosis, risk of exercise, medical management, indications for myectomy and alcohol ablations.
History of tPA in acute MI with Dr Phil Ludbrook
The first patient treated with tPA in an acute myocardial infarction was at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. In this episode, I talked with one of the key players in making that happen, Dr Phil Ludbrook. It’s a great bit of medical history that I hope you enjoy!
Alternative Payment Models Part 2 with Dr Karen Joynt Maddox
Second part with Dr Karen Joynt Maddox discussing alternative payment models. In part one, we discussed the history of how quality measures began to be collected to being used in current reimbursement. In part two, we discuss some of the limitations of these models and the unanticipated consequences on some populations.