As a child I would talk to my parents about their lives. How different their experiences were from the era that I grew up in. What was it like to live without television? How did they fight common diseases without the medicines that we have now?

As an adult, I now reflect on the few decades of my own experience. There were no computers as I was growing up. When patients had massive heart attacks, they generally were crippled or died.

Now, only a few short years later, we not only have medicines and diagnostic tests that can help fight heart disease, but we also have tests that can predict whether someone will get it. Who would have ever thought that one day a doctor could take a little piece of metal and thread it through an opening in a person’s leg and open a clogged artery in the heart — without the need for surgery — and then the patient could go home on the same day. That day is today.

Like airplanes that fly in the air and somehow don’t fall down or computers that can compute millions and billions of formulas at one time, medical science has advanced to a stage that is beyond our wildest dreams. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Medical science is growing at a blinding pace. It seems a daunting task these days to try to stay current with the literature, the changes in pharmaceutical drugs, and technological advances. Yet it is necessary to provide the best care possible. The physicians at Cardiovascular Consultants of South Florida understand this dynamic, and Heartlines, our magazine, is the vehicle that displays our passion and excitement for this scientific growth.

Enjoy,

Judah Friedman, MEd, MBA
Chief Executive Officer