Thought I would share this funny little joke that I ran across today… since cardiology is so darn specialized…
What’s the difference between a general practitioner and a specialist?
One treats what you have, the other thinks you have what he treats.
I actually chuckled out loud!
via Professional Jokes 

Hot dog ladies! Have a drink on me… We now have research that supports that a drink a day keeps the doctor away, well at least the cardiologist. That’s right, women that have the occasional drink run less of a risk of having a non-fatal heart attack than women who abstain from the ol’ liquid poison during their lives.
Results showed that in this population-based study, women who drank moderately had a significantly lower risk of heart attack than abstainers, and the benefits were greatest in women who had a drink daily. A lower risk for drinkers than …read more

The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey study found a wireless system that enables on-call cardiologists to view full ECGs on “smart” phones can cut in half the time it takes to begin the treatment of heart attack with catheter-based techniques such as angioplasty and stenting.
The door to intervention time of patients having an acute MI was cut to 73 minutes using this wireless system. It used to take almost that long to just to notify the cardiologist of the patient’s positive MI.
I haven’t seen this used in clinical practice yet, but I sure do welcome …read more