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Our first submission to the Healthcare Blog Gallery is called Dr. Wes – Musings in the Life of an Internist, Cardiologist, and Cardiac Electrophysiologist.

Here is his submission information:

Your Name
Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC

Name of Blog
Dr. Wes

Website
http://drwes.blogspot.com

Description of Blog
Primarily a blog about cardiology, cardiac electrophysiology (heart rhythm disorders), and musings in the life of a doctor struggling to survive in the changing world of health care today. Health policy, the medical device industry, personal reflections, case studies, and an occasional humorous post round out the collection.

Describe yourself
I started as a science and computer geek who became a biomedical engineer, then doctor in a subspecialty that combined by interests. I work, I play, I care, like everyone else.

Favorite Tags
cardiology, health policy, electrophysiology, medical devices, rants

Why do you blog?
I blog for therapy – for myself and perhaps, someone else. I blog to rant, I blog to inform. I blog to give people a window into another human being’s struggles and concerns, and I blog because it’s fun.

Why should readers read your blog?
To see a glimpse into one cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist’s health care world.

Favorite Post:

Working Hands

His hands told his story.
Theirs was a story of manual labor, for several distal phalanges were missing. Work was his life. Scars adorned the dorsum of several fingers and the skin was hyperpigmented from the sun. A few bruises were present from blunt trauma since they remained active still.

But the thinness of the skin was also telling, as each tendon sheath was now clearly visible beneath its crepe-like veil; each distorted joint more clearly visible. The thenar and hypothenar eminences, too, were wasted. Clutching a fork or spoon had become a challenge.

I noticed a small pearly nodule of the dorsum of his hand, just proximal to his index finger whose distal phalyx angled abruptly from arthritis. The nodule was smoothly circumscribed, with a small arteriole visible near the crest of its prominence. A basal cell tumor, I wondered? Near his wrist, was the irregular pulse that still pounded as it struggled to supply these hands with blood

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Site Review:

This blog is one of the blogs I follow regularly. Wes mixes medical and cardiology content with personal commentary and opinion. He is also not afraid to exercise his significant writing talent, with several recent posts dealing with his father’s recent illness. He does not seem to re-hash what a lot of other bloggers are talking about, but instead finds original subjects and different perspectives on things.

I enthusiastically recommend his blog.

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