Each day in America 3000 people have heart attacks, 1400 die, and 2200 undergo bypass surgery or angioplasty. The majority of these catastrophic events occur with little or no warning leaving us ill-prepared to deal with them. Two-thirds of the victims actually have seen a physician shortly before their illness and were reassured that there was nothing wrong with their heart! Many of the deaths and most of the heart attacks are the result of under diagnosis and under treatment, while 75% of the surgeries and angioplasties are due to over diagnosis and over treatment.

This book will teach you how to avoid becoming an accidental victim of the medical profession by learning about the weaknesses of the methods used to diagnosis and treat high blood pressure and heart disease, how patients are urged to undergo unnecessary bypass surgery or angioplasty more for the doctors benefit than the patient's, what your options are for diagnosis and treatment should you ever develop a heart problem, and how the heart can heal itself. Learn how HMOs and managed care plans gamble with your health and your life by providing only minimal care, and how they avoid more costly care by treating the symptoms rather than the disease. Without the information from this book, the doctor you select to treat you may be more dangerous than your disease.

How To Protect Your Heart From Your Doctor is available directly from the Noninvasive Heart Center. Please send a check for $20.00 to cover the cost of the book, shipping and handling. The book will be shipped by priority mail as soon as we receive your check. Make check payable to Howard H. Wayne, M.D. and mail to the

Noninvasive Heart Center
2550 Fifth Avenue, Suite 706
San Diego, CA 92103

While How To Protect Your Heart From Your Doctor teaches the patient how to avoid becoming a victim of under diagnosis and under treatment, or over diagnosis and over treatment, Living Longer With Heart Disease takes up where the first book leaves off. Part I talks about why heart disease is often silent, what are the many risk factors that make heart disease more likely to appear, less well known complications of heart disease such as heart failure, why heart disease often goes undetected in the female sex, how stress affects the heart, and what are the various causes of chest pain that can be confused with heart disease and result in unnecessary surgery.

Part II discusses the modern way to diagnose heart disease, what tests should and shouldn't be used and why, what an abnormal test means, and how it should be used in tracking the patient's disease, what are the best drugs and their doses for the treatment of coronary artery disease, what are the effects of exercise on the heart, and a discussion of a host of misconceptions about heart disease and its treatment. The over inflated claims and under discussed side effects of bypass surgery and angioplasty are described with newer references, and are compared to the highly successful and safer alternative forms of treatment known as medical therapy. In contrast, both surgery and angioplasty are highly unpredictable and are often unsuccessful. If you have heart disease, or think you may get it, this book may save your life.

Living Longer With Heart Disease is available from the publisher:

Health Information Press
4727 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 300
Los Angeles, CA 90010
Tel # 1-800 MED-SHOP