CLINTON'S QUADRUPLE BYPASS: THE UNTOLD STORY
Do celebrities get the best medical treatment?
Not if the ex-president is an example.
For starters: According to USA Today, Columbia-Presbyterian (the hospital selected for the
procedure) has the highest death rate (almost twice has high) for coronary bypass surgeries
in New York state: 3.93% in 2001, according to a report by the state Health Department.
The statewide average is 2.18%.
2: Clinton scheduled for "old timey" surgery - Several surgeons uninvolved in Clinton's care
said they didn't think his doctors would risk treating him with newer, less invasive approaches
such as robotic surgery or laparoscopy, sometimes called keyhole surgery. "With three-vessel
disease in a president, I don't think I'd be doing it," said Dr. W. Randolph Chitwood, chief
of cardiovascular surgery at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., and a
spokesman for the American College of Cardiology. Which goes to show that there are times
it can be of great benefit to be an ordinary 'guinea pig' citizen patient..
3: Where have the docs been up till now? With annual checkups, how have the 'top docs'
missed all early diagnostics of heart disease looming such as elevated homocysteine,
abnormal C-Reactive protein, high iron, lead, heavy metal and/or mercury toxicity, viral infection
of the endothelial linings of the arteries, out of range fibrinogen - all early warning signs of
heart trouble on the horizon.
Is it possible, the ex-president's docs never performed those tests?
Have they done them now? Or are they ten years behind the times looking only at cholesterol
levels which all the latest research has proven are virtually worthless?
(Stay tuned - story developing..)
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