#Another's aiming for a cardiologist

[mera-mann-kehne-laga]

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#Everyone #I repeat everyone #Was so sure of what they were gonna do and why they have opted for science #One wants to become a “paleontologist” #Another wants to become a doctor salunkhe (forensic investigator or something) #Another's aiming for a cardiologist #Someone a software developer #Someone an airforce officer for fighter jets #What was i supposed to say when 3 teachers asked me why and what I'm planning to do #I just lied about wanting to do software engineering :) #I wouldn't have been able to face their questions if i would've told them the truth #I was already so fuckn nervous #3 of my classmates and a teacher told me that i shouldn't have taken non medical #Arts would've been wayy better I'm just wasting my time here #I have no idea what is going on

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the stutter in trying.

summary: the monotony of dr. jeon catches her attention upon first glimpse. when he first enters her gym, he can’t lift weights without letting the dust of a blush fall on his cheeks and he stutters over his words whenever he pays his monthly fee.

but he comes back every day and she makes a habit out of learning the aspects that make him so efficient at his job and yet so quiet whenever he is around her.

though, there needs to be a flicker of destiny for them to get out of their routine of staring at each other without words exchanged and that happens thanks to a certain lee jihoon.

title: the stutter in trying pairing: jeon wonwoo x reader genre: 1990’s!au ; gym owner!au ; doctor!au ; cardiologist!au ; strangers to lovers!au ; idiots in love!au ; string of faith!au type: fluff ; humor ; friendship shenanigans ; wonwoo being an oblivious mess word count: 7k words approx. note: this is part of my ‘when we were young’ series. if you want to read any of the other standalones, here’s the masterlist.

His hands are the ground itself, she thinks the first time she sees Jeon Wonwoo. Or, doctor, as he accidentally wrote on his sign-up papers earlier this week when he had inscribed himself in the weight-lifting program. They mold to utter perfection, veins and joints drawing lines of desire that go up his slim arms and connect where his elbow meets his deltoid. They shake with each of his movements as one of her trainers leans against the expansive mirror on the wall, studying Dr. Jeon’s meticulous yet shy movements.

He doesn’t give up, however. Like the Earth whenever its population decides to be a tad bit less considerate. His cheeks, kissed by the sun and embarrassment, tint red with enough force from his blood that it forces a shy smile from him. His strawberry blonde hair shadows his eyes, though their shine remains. Even Kyro, his trainer, should be a little bit enchanted by him.

And normally, at nine in the morning, when the sun has just stroked the surface of the sky and the movement of the gym she owns partakes on mostly mothers and people just about to head to work, she should be doing something else. Organizing the next championship that will take place in the installations, or perhaps contact another sponsorship. Things that include connecting with people and, hence, a lot of talking in too-expensive brunch meet-ups. Though, she is a bit distracted for that right now, she’ll give herself the benefit of being honest.

Because Dr. Jeon claimed to one of her workers, Jihoon, that he had never done anything other than cardio but that little line of his bicep dares invite some thoughts inside her head. As in, if he keeps lifting at least four times a week, he’ll tone up.

If he’s a threat in his slimmest form, she can only imagine—

“Rule number one of ‘Zeus’.” A shout almost leaves her lips when she hears Jihoon’s whisper from behind her. One look over her shoulder shows her Jihoon’s wolfish grin, a black tank top falling on his pale frame, hair dotted in sweat. “We don’t look at the clients like they are a piece of meat.”

The room heats up at that moment. The gray walls and harsh white lights gleam on her skin as if she was going through hell itself, and she has to turn around and use Zeus’ t-shirt to fan her chest. A new episode of F.R.I.E.N.D.S runs from the small TV in the corner.

“Jihoon, don’t creep up on people. Newsflash, it’s creepy.”

He wraps his ruby lips around the water bottle, lifting an eyebrow in the process. She once heard the myth that the worst people hide in the smallest of bodies and this may be the clear example of its reality. “I’ve been here for well over five minutes.” His digits run over the hem of the notebook in which they sort out the appointments for training. Jihoon is one of the oldest trainers here, and her associate, aiming to take some responsibility off her shoulders and coach her through Zeus’—her gym—highs and lows. “But I could have been wrongly and insultingly ignored by my best friend because a certain doctor—”

“Oh, him?” She scoffs. A very natural scoff that has Jihoon pushing his lips together not to snort out a laugh. “He…He’s not my style.”

Jihoon takes up the spot next to her, bumping the side of her hip with his to a rhythm that lulls them into a silent argument. “What is not your style? The God-like face structure. The vibrato of his voice. Oh, I think you’ll hate the glasses he has hanging from his neck.”

She saw him squinting at the contract he had to sign earlier this week. From afar, of course, they have not exchanged more than four words. Good morning. Goodbye. Good morning again. Make that…three words.

The attraction itches at her lungs. She wants nothing more than to sigh into her palm and claim the universe as unfair. A man like Dr. Jeon probably has a bunch of women behind him. Could be married. Could potentially be a heartbreaker with the way his shoulders fit the white t-shirt that is now half-gluing to his chest because of the sweat.

“Jihoon, should I take you to HR for implying that your boss is flirting with our clients?”

Jihoon taps a pencil against the tip of her nose. “We don’t have HR.”

“I am the HR.”

“…Well,” Jihoon’s grin widens. “HR department, I’d like to voice out a complaint.”

“We’re listening.” She retorts, finally taking her gaze away from Kyro and the walking dream that is Dr. Jeon.

“Our boss has been ogling a man’s face for over thirty minutes and I’m starting to feel the urge to go over there and just tell him that my boss is very single—”

“Your boss would fire you.”

“Oh, she wouldn’t.” Jihoon frowns, a smile playing on his features when he gets out from his spot behind the counter, swinging his water bottle on one hand. “…Because that would mean actually going to brunch with our associates alone, and she can’t handle social environments.”

When she sees him moving closer to the weights, she runs towards him. A full on sprint that has her sneakers smacking against the tiles and earns a few glances from the people around her. She smiles at Jihoon like a tiger would do to its prey before eating it alive before she mumbles through gritted teeth.

“You can’t tell him anything that I haven’t confirmed.”

Jihoon shakes his head. “I wasn’t going over to him.” Though, he moves closer to her with a wave of his eyebrows. “But you’re welcome, Jackie Joyner-Kersee. Running all the way to me has earned you some attention. Enjoy it.”

Before she could fully question him what he meant, Jihoon had turned around, leaving her in the middle of the gym with someone’s eyes set on her. A set of brown eyes study her with as much precision as he can without his glasses and instead of eyeing her with curiousness, he smiles, only showing a few of his teeth and letting the apples of his cheeks turn back to a normal shade.

Then, he tries to wave, making one of the weights fall on the floor with a loud thud.

Dr. Jeon may be a very intelligent doctor, but at that moment, she is sure not a word will be exchanged between the two.

Awkward never meets awkward.

###

“My students aren’t paying attention to the class thanks to you.”

Granted pity, Minghao looks quite subpar to the beam and gleam he portrayed when he first started his endocrinology residency. His slim frame contorts to grasp an extra granola bar from the bending machine, turning around to look at Wonwoo through tired, bag-surrounded brown eyes. His coffee, once scalding his tongue in irreplaceable sweetness, turns sour and lukewarm upon being instructed of such atrocity.

“Not at all.” Wonwoo answers, frowning deeply and fixing the thickly brimmed glasses that fall on the bridge of his nose. “I have nothing to do with the interns.”

Minghao crosses one leg over the other, his scrubs tinted a deep crimson shade by his thigh. He can only imagine what kind of extirpation Dr. Xu had just done.

Minghao is on that position of the medical life. Where he is a resident and all specialists, much like himself, drop all responsibilities on him to be able to go home early. On the second year of an endocrinology residency, Minghao has too many diabetic patients that won’t listen to his instructions about a balanced diet and exercise, and possibly, a group of interns that don’t listen to him about the importance of the thyroid gland.

Not that he cares on explaining if no one is interested. Wonwoo had been on the first row seeing how Minghao rolled his eyes and asked students to leave his class if they didn’t want to listen to him.

The peak of the stressful medical life radicalizes Minghao’s every day stance, and he can only feel a little bit bad that his students are blaming him, a whole cardiologist, about their…distractions.

“You know, it’s a very explicit rule…though, no, it’s not explicit, you should be smart enough to do so with that face you’ve got.” Dr. Xu leans in closer, running a hand through his messy brown hair. “To not pass by when I’m giving my classes. I caught one of the interns drawing you.”

His lips part to get out a few excuses. “You were the one that had a hypertense patient, not me! I listened to Dr. Nam’s instructions of checking up on them.”

Dr. Nam, the nemesis that Minghao never expected to have. Dr. Nam doesn’t like anything. None of his three ex-wives. Not his children, pushed to study medicine, too. Not his patients or the overpriced consultations that he gives. All he likes is bossing around and humiliating people, Minghao included.

“She’s taking Losartan Potassium since she was like forty-five. She’ll be fine.” As typical of him, he rolls his eyes, only to plop down on the seat next to Wonwoo and press a hand to his forehead. “I got the biggest shit from Dr. Nam because the interns keep talking about Dr. Jeon’s sick pecs.”

“Did they really say pecs?”

“I had to correct them. Someone really had the audacity to mumble, right in front of me, that a plastic surgeon must have worked on those tits.” That’s the moment he has to stifle a laugh and a blush behind his drink, sticking his tongue out at the horrid taste of the hospital’s coffee. “Wonwoo, listen, I’m not going to blame you for being a handsome guy…but you either wear your lab coat with your scrubs or I’m really going to start forbidding you of entering the endocrinology wing.”

“Alright. Won’t walk myself around there.” The croissant on the white ceramic plate gets bent in half until he can grant Minghao the other half. The resident is so tired he grasps it between two fingers before giving it a lay bite, half-chewing as he melts into the seat. “How did the last night’s date go?”

Minghao has been on a strike of trying his shot at love. None of them doctors, as he says. In his words, he’s not ready to date another egocentric person.

“…I think doctors are not made for dating.” He answers, tossing his head back and throwing a scoff to the ceiling. “She tossed parsley at me.”

“Why?”

“I told her I had a shift the next day and that I had to go home early, and she took it as an offense.”

Oh.

Wonwoo has not gone on many dates since he graduated from his cardiology residency a year ago. A young doctor on the rise in the nineties is a bit difficult to boost through the world. A handful of people still lacked confidence in the usage and benefits of medication, hence, talking about heart conditions and their long-run repercussions was like talking in another language with a bunch of single-spoken people.

But they haven’t been any better than Minghao’s. His last date did not even last more than an hour. He got a call from one of his patients that was on the verge of a heart attack and had to head to the hospital in the blink of an eye.

“You know, I admire you, Wonwoo.”

He doesn’t say that he admires Minghao, too. For his resiliency and his discipline. Instead, he turns on his seat until he is face to face with him. “What for?”

“You’ve been staring at the same woman at the gym for over a year and you still haven’t asked for her number.” Minghao’s lips finally quirk up in that dulcet smile that had once represented him. Before the void of not sleeping crept up to him, that is. “What did she do this week that has you sighing into your coffee cup?”

Curse the day that he decided to tell Minghao anything about his attraction to the gym owner. The one Kyro normally listens to as if she was the president herself. “I won’t ask for her number. That’d be disrespectful.”

“…Alright, understandable, she could find it a bit ‘out there’.” Minghao quirks a slim eyebrow. “But how about a compliment?”

And play the part of the fool if she ever were to stop him in his tracks? He wouldn’t even be able to go there every morning to work out if that was the case. Too mortifying. “…Don’t you have thyroids you need to touch instead of triggering my social anxiety?”

Minghao stands up after taking the last bite of his croissant, quirking an eyebrow with all his intelligent mightiness. “Good thing you’re not a urologist.”

Wonwoo chuckles. “Why?”

“You’d be surprised to see the balls that you lack.” With that, Minghao has a bigger smile set on his features after getting out of the doctor’s resting room.

He doesn’t lack balls…it would just be an awkward situation.

As a doctor, he needs to avoid unnecessary stress on people. It’s the main cause of sicknesses for a reason.

Right?

### 

When she heard Yoon Jeonghan’s voice on her Nokia, she didn’t expect his client to be this insufferable.

Zeus started out of her greed to start a business that didn’t feel like it was judging people for being out of shape. Neither did it have a preconceived vision of how people’s bodies should look like. There were specialists that talked to the clients to reach a comfortable and desired body shape, but never did they push the slim ideal that appeared on magazines onto their clients. Though a lot of people around Seoul had started growing interested in her gym, never had a real celebrity tried to work out here.

Hana, one of the singers in the biggest girl group of the decade, twirls the gum that is in between her teeth around her index before she starts chewing on it again. They are standing one across from the other in Zeus’ installations, with Jihoon right behind her trying not to lose his mind on Hana’s perfect bone structure.

“I’m not so sure about the gym. It’s a bit small…” Not true. It wasn’t the biggest when she started three years ago with a loan from one of Jihoon’s family members and her savings, but with the earnings they had encountered, she had managed to add more space to the gym. “I heard there was more people.”

She is not good at talking and Jeonghan, Hana’s manager, must notice that the hardest time builds off this conversation within her mind. Is she supposed to tell a whole celebrity that she is wrong?

“It’s pretty early in the morning and we personally arranged our appointments so there would be more space for you.” Jihoon says from behind her, wrapping an arm around her shoulder and making her breathing ease up.

Thank God he knows how to come up with something on the spot.

“I think it’s better that it is a bit private when you come around.” Jeonghan reasons with Hana, but she ignores anything that doesn’t sound like what she’s thinking around.

“Sorry, I don’t think it’s my style…” Though, when she spares a glance over the owner’s shoulder, her face contorts onto interest. Her spine seems to erect at that moment, elongating her already amazing figure as she blows that dirty gum in a bubble before popping it loudly. “Who’s that?”

She and Jihoon scavenge to turn around. Maybe, some of the fans had entered against her will or Kyro was trying to reach one of the whistle notes in Mariah Carey’s newest track. Nonetheless, they are met with the peaceful figure of Dr. Jeon. His now stronger arms contract when lifting up the weights that Kyro had instructed him to grab, cladded in all black, sporting an abdominal belt that makes his already godly waist a little bit more pronounced.

“Oh, that’s—”

“A client.” She resorts on interrupting Jihoon, widening her eyes at him with a silent plea. Don’t let the most beautiful woman that has ever grazed this gym talk to the man I’ve been into for over a year, she announces mentally but Jihoon doesn’t seem to read eyes.

“Jeon Wonwoo. He’s a very good client of ours.”

The most enthralling and fulfilling motion she ever did was when she sneaked a hand behind Jihoon’s back and pinched just in between his shoulder blades. His digits contort at the pain and she can actually show him just how much he fucked up.

“I’ll go introduce myself to him.” Hana announces, swiveling her hips in the air and waltzing over to where Wonwoo is working out.

Jeonghan shakes his head, though a smirk appears on his features. “She’s always finding someone new.” He whispers. “She dated three of the SECHSKIES members, but you didn’t hear it from me.”

That’s a big, blaring red sign.

“Jihoon, I’m going to kill you.” She retorts in a mumble, lowering her face to look him in the eyes.

That’s when it clicks within him. Eye to eye, he can finally part his lips and gasp at what he had done. “Shit.” He encounters, clasping a hand over his mouth. “Distraction. Now.”

Though, Hana is already pushing the highlighted strands of her hair behind her ear and in this good light, with her lips concealing the harsh words that leave her lips when impatient, she does look like a good woman. The kind that would wrap someone like Dr. Jeon around her finger. It’s not a wonder that Wonwoo does actually talk to her. Not a lot, but without the stutter that characterizes him when around her.

There’s not much to do now, so she opts to gossip with Jeonghan. “Which member did she date?”

“Three.”

“Mention one.”

“I have a no telling clause.” Jeonghan prompts to say, but he is already leaning against her shoulder, speaking in a hushed tone. “But if we’re just keeping it between us…Jiwon and she shattered his heart to little tiny pieces.”

“We’ve lost.” She tells the man on her other side, watching as Jihoon shakes his head at the thought alone. He reaches his goal even if it’s the last thing he’ll ever do. “She dated three members of a band—”

“Hey! Wonwoo!” Jihoon shouts in two momentums, making the doctor widen his eyes and turn to him with a flush on the tips of his ears. “Can you do the splits?”

Why the hell is he talking about the splits? Wonwoo puts down the weight he had been lifting before giving a tiny, adorable shake of his head. “No. Can you?”

“No,” Jihoon has that dangerous gleam in his eyes. When his introverted self is burst through by desperation. “But we can always try. On the count of three. One, two, three!”

The mortification—and pain—that must have surged through him when he literally dropped to the floor signifies their friendship when both Wonwoo and Jeonghan rush over to a very stiff Jihoon. The warmth that Wonwoo emanates seeps through his being, coating the room in an aroma so enticing and strong that her heart leaps out of her chest at the mere sniff of his aroma. Every muscle in his back works to ruin the shelter of protection that wraps around her mind, leaving her as a mess of whom she should be in this situation.

"Is…Is he alright?" She questions and while Jihoon is probably mentally happy at the proximity of her chest to Wonwoo’s back as she speaks in a low tone towards him, his poor muscles are suffering through what life calls…

Destiny.

Life says: ‘Sorry, it won’t happen’.

Wonwoo almost speaks normally, quite like he did with Hana, but a hiccup stroke at his chest and chokes the words in the roof of his mouth. “A—Ah. I’ll check! Uh, but…but…yeah, J—Jihoon, can I touch your thigh?”

“Mine?” Jihoon spares a glace towards her when he gets seated on one of the benches, splaying a hand on the now quite obvious hole in his shorts. “My thigh?”

“You’re the one that got i—injured…” Why does Wonwoo become a stuttering mess whenever she is around?

“Oh,” Jihoon acknowledges, splaying a hand on his forehead. “Oh! My thigh!”

“Are you dumb or something?” Hana questions, crossing her arms across her chest.

Jihoon, just like he is, has the answer on the tip of his tongue as Wonwoo palpates his thigh muscles. “Something. I’ll leave the dumb role for other people to play.”

She doesn’t catch up with the snark in his remark. Instead of paying attention to Hana, she kneels next to Wonwoo, watching Jihoon’s expression for any sign of pain.

Everything hurts, apparently.

“I don’t feel any rip in his muscles.” Wonwoo announces, sturdy and strict, as if he didn’t want to exchange a word with her.

Oh, she hadn’t thought about that.

What if he just really hates her?

“We could get him some ice.”

“On it.” Suddenly, she is standing up, as if scared of being next to Wonwoo. When she moves to her lounging room, she can only curse herself mentally. Her heart feels a thousand times weightier, her shirt suddenly constricting her as she thought…

He doesn’t like you.

He never will.

My God, he hates you!

The reasoning behind her actions stands on such statement. She gives Wonwoo some frozen vegetables, wrap an arm around Jihoon’s shoulder and aspires to make him feel better than she does.

Of course, not everyone liked her, but for some reason, Dr. Jeon hurt a little bit more than most.

###

Studying an electrocardiogram should be his biggest concern, but as he inspects his patient’s repolarization and depolarization, his graze trails—ever so often—towards the man that holds his patient’s hand. The woman smiles at him weakly, but he keeps pressing kissing to her knuckles, as if his whole life lays on a hospital bed.

It probably does.

“I’m thinking of a Wolff Parkinson White Syndrome, Mrs. Ho. However, I’ll let you rest for a while as I arrange my thoughts on the best medication. We don’t want to damage your liver any further, alright?” He pats a hand on his patient’s calf, earning a good hearted nod from Mrs. Ho, who immediately returns her gaze to her husband.

“She’ll get better, won’t she?”

“Of course. She’ll have to get used to a new lifestyle but if we follow along with a good praxis, she’ll be fine.” Wonwoo compliments, bowing to the couple and turning on his heels as he hears words of thankfulness behind him.

Though, he’ll be honest with himself as he rubs on the underside of his eye and feels the hollows of tired nights. Nights that he has spent in complete solitude since a few years from now. There were once women that knew everything about him, that had him falling and tripping on his own words, but none of them made him wrap his tongue until there were no phrases left to say.

Nurse Junhui stands by the waiting room, wrapping his lips around a lollipop a bit childishly for a man of his height and age. His feet dangle from the counter, but no one will call him out for it. It’s Wen Junhui, after all, and all the older nurses coo at the mere image of him, let alone his words as he gossips with the rest of his team.

“Dr. Jeon!” He exclaims when Wonwoo passes by and that gives him Wonwoo some time to take his head out of the gutter. So, what if he hasn’t been in love for a while? It’s not like he needs it. He has his patients and a lot of responsibility on his shoulders. “We were just talking about you.”

Wonwoo quirks an eyebrow when lowering his glasses. “About?”

“I was telling the nurses you did have a crush on someone.” Junhui completes as if it’s the easiest thing to talk about. “Everyone says you don’t have the heart to love someone, but you did tell me about this gym owner you thought was so hot—”

He clasps a hand around Junhui’s forearm, tugging him closer and frowning at him. “Jun, have you gone absolutely insane?”

“What?” The man questions, a dumbfounded smile appearing on his face.

“That’s my personal life.”

“Oh, your life is personal enough that most people don’t even know your real name past Dr. Jeon. No one will notice if I confirm you do have a heart.”

Dr. Xu passes by Junhui, jotting something down on a folder. “…And a dick.”

“Minghao…” Wonwoo sighs, in between laughing or grunting. Junhui slips away from his hold to jut his chin forward.

“They were asking me if you finally got a girlfriend. The gym owner, I mean.”

Maybe, Wonwoo shouldn’t have gone out with Junhui for drinks eleven months ago. The intensity of his crush blossomed out of his mouth and towards drunken confessions that should have never met the light of the day.

But hey, props to Junhui, he remembers what he heard when drunk.

“No, Jun. I happen to lack a girlfriend in my life.”

Junhui scrunches up his nose. “And that’s because…?”

“I don’t have the time to be in a relationship.”

Once again, Minghao clicks his pen from afar. “The balls. He doesn’t have balls.”

Wonwoo is lucky that there are no patients around. His lip worries in between his teeth, mouth pressed together to stifle his nervousness. “And I can’t talk to her. Like, not that I can’t by any societal rule. My words just don’t come out around her…”

“Oh!” Junhui widens his eyes at that. “Something like that happened to me once. I was out on a date and my tongue was suddenly swollen, but it was ‘cause I had some seafood that was a little bit rotten. I couldn’t speak so—”

“I can’t speak because she makes me nervous.” Wonwoo completes, running a hand through his hair and fixing it soon after. “Happy? Now, I have stuff to do.”

Minghao moves closer to the duo, leaning his slim waist against the counter before clicking on his pen obnoxiously. “You could give her flowers when she gets out of working. Not while people are there, of course, because that’d pressure her into taking them and it’s not the same.”

“What about chocolates?” Junhui prompts. “She works out, sure, but everyone likes chocolates.”

An idea pops inside Wonwoo’s mind when Minghao says. “Or just speak to her. Tell her what you’ve never been able to conversate about.”

Though, before they could get more excited about the idea, Wonwoo nods. “Alright, I’ll take it into consideration for things I’ll never do, how about that?”

“Woo—” Minghao tries to speak, but Wonwoo has already turned around to get to his consultation room.

The worst part is that he already has the gift he’ll give her Monday night sitting in his brain.

But he’ll have to skip the gym for a few days after that.

God, he’s twenty-five. He shouldn’t act like this at this moment of his life…and he never had before, but she seems to make his brain malfunction, syllables mingling but unable to form a single word to let out from his pink lips.

### 

Out of the twenty-four hours a day has, she spends seventeen in sneakers. The rest? She’s barefoot. Jihoon insisted, like the world would be saved from its imminent doom, that she should wear a pair of heels for the work dinner they were going to have, but slipping out of Zeus with a pair of beige heels that are not even her size—lent to her by Kyro’s girlfriend—is not how she thought her Monday night would go as.

The pitch-black night swims across her vision with the blur of the lulling stars and the swishing of cars. She locks the door behind her, wobbling in her steps and cursing at the wind for the shortness of her skirt and how freezing she’ll be the rest of the night. She covers her body more with her long white coat, tying it around her waist and sighing at the image ahead of her.

When did she thinks, architectonically, that it would be a great idea to have a set of stairs leading up to her gym?

One step forward and she sees what hides under the moonlight. The moon is nowhere in sight, but she can see Dr. Jeon. Not that he looks like his work out adoring self when he trains in Zeus, but he also doesn’t seem like a doctor. A plaid blue and green shirt hides the curves of the muscles that she knows hide underneath, one of his hands inside his straight-edge jeans and the other wrapped around what seems to be a glass vase, covered in a lace-cladded lid.

His nose molds to the will of his smile and her heart perks up at the mere interest of looking at her, through the dark and through these ridiculous clothes.

This is karma for what Jihoon did for her, because her ankle balances itself on the slim heel before it cracks loudly and she’s falling down the set of stairs.

Luckily for her, her coat covers the skirt that has ridden up her legs the slightest, but she also falls right in front of Dr. Jeon. Heat radiates up her ankle, stealing a hiss from her lips while Wonwoo moves at the speed of an Olympian to catch up with her.

“Are you alright?”

A new sentence added to his repertoire of what he never says, she has to look up at him to make sure that this is Jeon Wonwoo and not his twin brother. She shakes her head, because it’s the reality she lives, kicking off the heel that remained intact before grasping her right ankle in between her digits.

“Let me check it.”

“It’s not bent or swollen. I promise. I almost got there, but I was lucky.” He munches on his bottom lip, as if nervous, when he wraps his hands over hers and cages them in a feeling that she’d rather never forget.

Wonwoo’s digits tremble and maybe, that is why he is a cardiologist instead of a surgeon. They are extremely cold, too. Not warm like she imagined. Nonetheless, they lull her into a sense of tranquility when he touches around her ankle and speaks in a soft tone.

“I’m sorry I made you fall.”

“Oh, I should be the one who’s sorry. I put on a pair of heels I can’t walk in. I am sorry I scared you.”

“Where are you going?” Wonwoo questions, stealing a glance at her and then, lowering his gaze to her skin, touching to check up. “I—I rarely see you out. Not that I’ve been here around this time, but…I’ve never seen you outside Zeus is what I mean, much less…”

“Much less looking like a little girl walking on heels?”

He shakes his head. “You don’t look like that.”

She wants to ask him what he thinks. Blame her, she’s a woman thirsting for compliments for a man she finds utterly if not deliciously attractive. Instead, he moves the articulations of her ankle, pinching her Achilles’ heel and earning a soft hum from her.

“Is it uncomfortable there?”

“No.” It hurts a bit, but having him touching her for longer is something she doesn’t want to happen. She clasps a hand on his shoulder to hoist herself up, sending a smile his way when she stands upright but he still holds his arms in a hovered manner in case she falls. “Anything I could help you with, Dr. Jeon? We just closed, but—”

“Wonwoo.” He corrects. “I don’t…Well, I’m not your doctor. Unless you have a heart condition. I mean, you could, I don’t—”

“I don’t.” She complies, picking up her bag from the floor. “Wonwoo.”

“Yes.” It’s like he has forgotten the reason why he is here, nodding to himself before his eyes become plates. He grabs what he had left on the floor then, her name written in almost unreadable letters on the glass. “I brought a gift for you.”

Little cardboard cutouts circle around like notes thrown in the ocean and just when she’s about to open the lid, as words leave her lips, he interrupts her.

“What is this—?”

“Please, read them when I am not here.”

“What do you mean?”

Kyro has trained him well, because he’s rushing to his car in the matter of seconds, saying in his booming deep voice.

“I hope you like it!”

And like that, he disappears. Not in the shadows, he actually waits parked until she gets inside her car, but she can’t see him inside his Subaru Outback.

The lid kisses her skin in the scalding feeling of his coldness until she can throw it on her passenger seat. The first paper she unfolds has a single word, written in that almost unintelligible font.

His handwriting.

Beautiful.

The other words are equally as breathtaking.

Kind.

Shy.

Genuine.

Lovely.

Each word more addicting than the other, when she clasps her hand on the last paper out of the twenty-one inside, it’s not a single word but a whole sentence.

“Just compliments I wanted to give you but never could. Have a nice night.”

When she looks through the review mirror, Wonwoo has left.

### 

Six years of friendship and she has never seen Jihoon cry. Not like this. Not even a single tear running down his cheek when he is falling asleep on his side. He is full on weeping on one of their client’s shirts—Mingyu’s, serves him well for leverage thanks to their height difference—as he clasps the last cardboard note in between his fingers.

“This bitch.” Jihoon dares curse in between a sniffle of his nose. He doesn’t care that the clients are looking at him, or that his face has turned beet red. “You’re going to answer. I’m literally reliving the romance of ‘Pretty Woman’ and I’m not letting you pass that up.”

She watches as Jihoon moves over to the counter, grabbing the agenda where the appointments are jotted down and scribbling something that he doesn’t let her see.

“Did you just call me a prostitute?”

“He did.” Mingyu pokes fun, looking over his shoulder at the group of women staring at him. One of them the newest trainer in her team. Though, his fiancé still waits for him at home and it seems like while he enjoys the compliment of being watched, he doesn’t seek for it like he did before.

“What are you doing? Jihoon! Jihoon, let me see!” The more she tries to look, the more he moves away and only when he crosses over a few words on the agenda does he really stop sobbing and wipe at his tears to answer.

“The only way that you two will have any time together is if you become his trainer and what a coincidence that I need Kyro to help me train a new client.”

“Don’t you dare—” Though, when she clasps the agenda, Wonwoo has already been written down in his 9am work outs with her as his trainer. “What will I even do? I’m too embarrassed to even look him in the eyes, let alone look at his biceps.”

Mingyu has the audacity not to hide his chuckle and Jihoon flutters his eyelashes as if he is the most innocent man in this world. “Well, find your words because it’s happening.”

“…I’ll make a fool of myself.”

Jihoon takes a little paper out of the glass then, opening it at her eyes and saying: “Here it says that you are ‘smart’, act like it. Don’t let life happen, make it happen.”

###

Wonwoo has done his leg raises three times now and still, he can’t seem to remember how many times he has done it.

Blame the person by his side, hair framing her face and the neckline of her tank top falling a bit on her collarbones, bringing a heat of pink up his ears. What exactly had he been thinking when he practically confessed his year-long crush on her through a glass filled with compliment? He is not sure. Junhui infected his brain like a parasite. Though, she is as professional as she can get, helping him through the worst work-out he has ever done.

After finishing off with his leg raises, he stands in front of the mirror. His shoulders hide a portion of her face to his vision and he looms down a bit just to be able to see the shine of her lip gloss and the glimmer of her eyes when they connect with his through their reflections. He is a man of enigmas and while he knows nothing bad can hide behind eyes so pure, so filled up with empathy and understanding, he also knows that there are portions of her that he won’t be able to solve if he only leaves it at destiny to solve it.

So, he smiles. That’s what he wants to do when he sees her, after all. Cheekbones well-raised and a set of white teeth shown, that triggers something within her. A grin, though a bit innocent, mirrors back at him, giving him his weights to continue with his squats.

He starts but it only takes two squats for him to stop.

“You’ll hurt your back. Do it a little bit more leaned over.” Her palm splays on his back, muscles contracting at the mere touch and he has to sigh at the feeling of her knees touching the back of his to help him with his position. He always gets it right, so why is it—?

Then, her breath ghosts on his nape and every hair on his body begs for him to get away from that gym. His mind tells him that this is an adrenaline-filled zone that mixes a cocktail of desire and interest, along with a bit of aloof magic in what consists of his moves towards her, but he can’t stop his heart from speaking when he turns around.

This is the acme of a cardiologist. Having his heart talk for himself.

“Uh, I should really be paying attention to you but I am not.” Wonwoo shakes his head, cascades of dark hair framing his forehead. He had forgotten his cap at home for a reason. Call it a sixth sense. She looks up at him, frowning her eyebrows a bit and fuck him for wanting nothing more than to soothe those lines with a kiss.

He presses his lips together, biting on his lip.

“I’ll call Kyro then—”

“No.” Wonwoo finalizes for her, grasping her wrist and maybe, it’s the medical side of him but his index and middle finger trace over her radial pulse. It’s racing. Her heart is just as crazy as his feels. “I’m sure you know by now that I’m not g—good with words…but I really would like to try talking to you over a coffee.”

“As in a date?” She mumbles out those words robotically, as if she couldn’t get the grasp of them.

That steals a chuckle out of him. A bit muffled, they are in public after all, but it gives him a boost to speak.

“Yes.” He confirms, bringing her wrist up to his lips to press a chaste kiss there before speaking against her skin. “May I have the chance to take you out?”

She squints her eyes at that. “That has worked for you before.”

“What?”

“Looking at people like that. Hiding your blush behind…my wrist.” Her words are jumbled before she shakes her head, arranging her thoughts.

“It’s the first time I do it, actually.”

“Fuck.” She counterparts, letting go of him before nodding. “For sure, take me out, but don’t…take me off guard like that.”

“Why? Because you don’t like it?” He questions, voice soft as he looks at her face from over her shoulder.

She turns around, faces too close when she answers: “Oh, you know what I think of it.”

“That you hate it.” Wonwoo assumes, only to have her shaking her head.

“Then you don’t know me at all.” She responds. “I haven’t hated anything you’ve done, Wonwoo. Ever.”

“Not even the cards?”

“I loved those.” She pats a hand on the small of his back. “Now, off to do your squats.”

His position is better when he looks at her through the mirror. “Wednesday sounds great for you?”

“Sounds perfect. Crook those knees, Wonwoo.”

“Yes, boss.”

The giggle that she hides with a lip bite steals one from him.

### 

Wonwoo has the sleeves of his sweater covering his palms and surrounding his coffee mug when he burns the whole roof of his mouth and lets out the longest hiss that can be expected out of a date.

The conversation does not flow easily. You see, there are a lot of lies that come when the initiation of romance happens to take place in someone’s life and one of them is that going on a date with someone after a long time pining after each other will come easily. It doesn’t and while she has been in the dating business for a while, with its lows and lowest, she had forgotten just how difficult it is to get a conversation across. How hiding smiles behind mugs and trying her hardest not to reach over the table and just clasp his hand in hers is just one of the toughest trials of the afternoon.

“Did you just burn yourself?” That’s the question that does it. The one that breaks the ice as Wonwoo heaves and places a napkin just on the roof of his mouth.

“Sorry.” Is what she can understand from the muffled voice that leaves his lips. Notifying that he is probably not showing his most attractive state, even when wearing a dense gray sweater and a pair of jeans that show the strength of his legs, he takes the napkin out of his mouth. “I’m not a good talker, as you can tell.”

“Quite the paradox for a doctor. One would think they are the biggest talkers.” She prompts, though she shrugs her shoulders. “I don’t mind, however. Your lack of speech makes what you say more thoughtful, in a way.”

“You wouldn’t believe me if I said doctors are very different depending on the specialty they decide to go to. Rumor has it that cardiologists are grumpy and obstinate.”

Her eyebrows raise at the statement. “And you’re that?”

“No.” Wonwoo complies, earning laughter from her. “But you did say I’m a paradox.”

She hums, taking a sip of her coffee not without blowing on it first. “What made you want to become a cardiologist?”

Expecting an elongated answer of a story that should probably go untold, he sighs. “I had to give a presentation about the heart as an organ in my first few semesters. It was the only good grade I got for a while, so…that became my thing, I guess. I am a huge nerd for it as an…you know, as a figure? Its architecture? How it’s constructed, maybe.”

“Interesting.” She lets out. “It’s quite like me with Zeus, I guess. I didn’t love working out, but I wanted to construct a place that…made people feel comfortable with working out. Without having that social construct of looking certain way or doing the exercises in a set way. Being judged, that’s what I was trying to avoid.”

“You’ve done just that.” The corners of his eyes crinkle at his smile, running his finger on the edge of the mug, still nicely covered by his sweater paws.

Matters with Wonwoo don’t come easily. Getting words out of him is like carving for gold. When he does let them out, however, she’s surprised by the stories he can tell. The way he wraps his lips around his knowledge, giving it in pieces that both showcase how smart he is but how much he wants to be understood. The coffee and the pastries in his favorite area of Seoul become a mere memory until night arrives and when the lights are turned off, a waitress getting close to them to ask them to leave as politely as possible, she notices one thing.

Wonwoo is a man of the night. He gets a boost of energy, a surge of interest and a curiosity that cannot be calmed down when they share sweet, silent laughter.

It’s a look in his eyes and a pull of an unknown force that makes her get closer. His hand, gravitating towards hers, slots digit after digit through her fingers. She learns, with the weight of his hand and the closeness of his chest, the gust of air that he lets out, too, that there are some people that are meant to unite. One day or the other.

He whispers: “I am not much of a talker, but I can show you how much I have been into you.”

Rationality aside, she lulls forward, meeting him in the middle…because that’s the power of a kiss, not giving it one-sidedly, but uniting forces in the end to turn it to something beautiful. Like the habits she had studied out of him for an entire year, he surprises her with the softness of his lips, the glide of them across her own when giving her a small peck; a sun that caresses her flesh in the early morning of summer.

Instead, she gives a portion of her being. Deepening what feels like a thread that unites them. His hand still holds hers, but his other palm sneaks towards her spine, tracing her lumbar curve and digging his fingers there. His teeth drag against her bottom lip softly, stealing a sigh that should not have escaped her. He laughs.

“What?”

“One of us is a talker.” Wonwoo teases, only to have her digging her nails into his knuckles while still holding his hand.

“Shut up.”

He pretends to zip his mouth and throw the key. Just a few seconds of silence paired up with the look he gives her tells her something.

Wonwoo is not a man of words, but whatever he does or says means the sun, the moon and the stars.

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[yasemins]

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THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OLD; CIS WOMAN; REAL ESTATE AGENT; has lived in WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH since march 2021

"You only feel it when it's lost, gettin' through still has a cost. Quietly, it slips through your fingers, love. Falling from you drop by drop;"

older twin by fifteen minutes, and spent most of her life trying her best to be as different as she possibly could from her sister Hazal. got married right after college, but, she started feeling really suffocated in her relationship, and a few years into it, she filed for divorce when she was in another country studying for a post-grad course. moved to nyc, where she worked for the marketing section of a multinational company, but ended up having a serious meltdown due to burnout. after spending a few weeks in the psych ward, yasemin decided to change careers and got a real estate license, where she could put to good use her expertise in marketing and sales. moved to wilmington when she was offered to become the responsible for the wilmington branch of the company she works for. has tattoos on her arms and thighs, two forward helix, a daith and three australian piercings on her right ear, a nostril diamond piercing, wears her wavy hair either down or in a high ponytail, never leaves the house without her grandmother's diamond earrings or the necklace her father gave her on her graduation day. cannot live without music, scented candles and wine.

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triggers for — mentions of car accident, divorce and burnout

Born in Portland, Maine to Turkish parents, Yasemin Akman spent most of her early childhood running around with her sister on the outskirts of the beautiful, New England city. Her parents, a very dedicated accountant, and a strict cardiologist both made sure that their girls were not only raised with love but also, with ambitions and eyes set on building themselves stellar careers. So Yasemin grew up with this greed for things; She’d always wanted more than she had been given, and obviously, she knew she would have to work hard to make things possible for herself.

Such greed, in Yasemin, was mixed with a compassion instilled in her by her father, especially after than man had suffered a car accident that landed him on a wheelchair. From that day on, Bekir Akman became his daughters’ guiding light at home whereas their mother Cemre filled the girls lives with stories of improvement and encouragement.

At the age of fourteen, her family moved to Orange County, California due to a promotion that had been given to Dr. Akman, to work as the chief of Cardiology in the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. In California, Yasemin blossomed even more as both a young woman and the academic prodigy she’d started to work on back in New England. It was also in California that she began trying to be as different as possible from her twin sister, Hazal. She started dying her hair, wearing too much eye make-up, lashing out at people… eventually, it stopped.

It was towards the end of her high school years that she met someone who possibly became the most significant turning point in her life. From the moment they met, they seemed to be connected at the hip, and with time, that friendship and care turned into love. They seemed to work well together, she helped him with his studies and with his social skills and he---well, he gave her love. Pure love and companionship. He seemed to be her biggest supporter and for someone who aimed as high as Yasemin did, she could use all the support from around her. Her family had practically adopted him too, and from the time they had graduated high school, a marriage proposal knocked on her door, swooped her parents off their feet too, and there she was, having the cutest little end-of-the-summer wedding with her first love.

College life wasn’t as hard as most people made it out to be. Yasemin got accepted into Berkeley to study Marketing, and while her husband didn’t have the same luck to be accepted to the same university, he still followed her to Northern California to give their love a chance. So, since she had the academic part of her life already decided, it wasn’t hard for Yasemin to focus on what she needed to focus. The best part was that her husband, despite not going to the same University as her, also seemed interested in academic life, so all the pressure their friends were putting on them, asking about babies and all that, she could push to the back of her mind and focus on what mattered.

However, as time passed, Yasemin started feeling like she was trapped. It wasn’t like she didn’t love her husband, because she did. She truly did, but their lives came to a point where his life revolved around hers and hers revolved around something else: her career. Yasemin began feeling suffocated and unhappy, which was not ideal for marriage. Her career was going great, her social life was amazing and yet, there was still pressure to start a family and Yasemin didn’t know if it came from within herself or from the ones around her and it was taking a toll on her mental health.

When the opportunity to spend a few months studying in London showed up, Yasemin grabbed it with so much strength that it probably gave everyone around her a whiplash, including her husband. Life was spiralling down, even away from everyone and, a couple of months after arriving, Yasemin understood why… and among the several rash decisions that she had made while there, was also the one to divorce her high school sweetheart.

While in London, Yasemin moved on to study Consumer Behavior in a Master's course and a thesis that evolved into her ending up getting her Doctorate at the early age of 27, once again, focusing on building herself a career and thinking of herself as smarter than the others in the room despite her love life had fallen apart. Everything in her life seemed to happen so fast and so intensely that Yasemin didn't seem to be surprised by the curve balls and obstacles that life seemed to throw her way. In fact, she seemed to be determined not to let them stop her. She moved back to the United States, more precisely to New York City to work as the Marketing Chief of a multinational company. It was also in New York where she had a medical emergency due to burnout, which led her to a complete change in her career.

Both her therapist and her Psychiatrist had her step out of work, but, as stubborn and unstoppable as she was, Yasemin started taking getting her realtor’s license and from there, the sky was the limit. A friend gave her the opportunity to join a rising real estate company, and with her expertise in sales, consumer behavior, and sweet talking, it didn’t take long for Yasemin to start closing deals on millionaire properties and getting herself big commissions out of them. Soon enough, she was scouted to join a really big and important real estate agency with offices all over the United States, where she could create a solid network and make a bigger name for herself.

What brought Yasemin to Wilmington was the chance to oversee the Wilmington offices of the agency she works for. She still drives to Raleigh once or twice a week for important meetings, but for most situations, she’s able to do those online. She bought herself a small beautiful house facing the ocean in Wrightsville Beach and has been living there for the last three years.

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[my-head-is-an-animal]

Problems With The Heart

Greg House x Dr Anna Harding (OFC)

Story Masterlist

Chapter 11 - 40 Candidates

House was enjoying the way Anna was playing her games with him, he managed to get his guitar back and made her laugh with his idea to interview forty people all at the same time, whittling them down to three to see who he could stand working with.

‘Cuddy will never let you get away with that.’ She laughed while they sat at the bar, doing shots.

‘What’s she going to do to stop me?’

‘Look, just make it quick, most of my staff can’t stand you as it is, we don’t need a horde of doctors following you around, getting in the way when you come and see me.’

‘Who says I’m going to go up two floors to see you?’ He frowned with a grin. ‘I’ve got a bum leg you know.’

‘Doesn’t stop you doing things for fun.’ Her eyes flashed at him as her gaze dropped to his mouth.

‘Have sex with me.’ He said.

‘Give me a reason to.’

House liked the game. ‘I’ve never needed a reason before.’

‘So, everyone gets to play games with everyone, but I don’t get to play games with you?’

‘What are the rules?’ He was getting curious about what she was doing.

‘The only ones you should concern yourself with are these: you give me a good reason to have sex with you and you don’t ask for help. I’ll know if you do.’

‘How?’

‘I know how your mouth works.’

‘So do a lot of women, but you don’t see them bragging.’ They threw back another shot. ‘Okay, fine, but if I win, I want the good stuff.’

‘Fine.’ She agreed and they drank to it.

House spent days coming up with a good reason, something that she wouldn’t be able to resist, he suspected she wouldn’t take just any reason, but the specificity might not have been her aim either.

The first day of interviews were exactly what he expected, boring, until the astronaut came in to liven things up. It eliminated most of the candidates and made his job easier.

While he was giving his speech and after Cuddy had told him he couldn’t interview people this way, the door at the back of the lecture hall opened.

‘Woah!’ House whistled, looking her up and down. Anna had told him she had some board members in looking at her department that morning so she needed to dress the part, black heels with a slimming black pant suit that just brushed her ankles, a light pink top that in the right light showed she was wearing a white lace bra, her make up was minimal, but her bright blue eyes were beautiful and her thick brown hair curled around her shoulders. It was one of the only times he’d seen her coat sleeves rolled down. ‘I didn’t order a supermodel.’

‘I know, you just went ahead and hired forty doctors for three positions.’ She raised her eyebrow as she descended the steps and House could feel his heart racing a little faster.

‘Hot British cardiologists anyone else’s thing?’ House addressed the whole hall, mostly to keep himself from stripping her naked and having her in the steps of the lecture hall.

‘Cuddy asked me to come and see if I could find any sense in what you’re doing.’ She ignored his comment, stepping closer to him so he could smell light perfume on her.

‘I’m interviewing potential candidates.’

Anna grinned a little. ‘Okay. How’s that going? You guys enjoying Dr House’s approach?’

The room was silent. House was at risk of losing himself to her. ‘Well, someone answer the woman, unless you’re a hallucination? Everyone else can see an outrageously hot doctor right?’

One of the candidates he was definitely firing, cleared his throat. ‘He’s not very agreeable.’

‘No, he’s not.’ Anna agree without looking at the candidate. ‘You’ll get used to that.’

‘I thought you found me very agreeable, Dr Harding.’

‘I find you tolerable on hospital grounds.’

‘And not on hospital grounds?’ House liked where this was going.

Anna closed her mouth, but her smile was evident. She turned around to head back out the hall. ‘I’m not covering for you,’ she said reaching the top. ‘Make a decision and do it quickly.’

‘Yes, ma’am.’ House sighed, hating that she was leaving.

Once she was gone the whole room looked at him.

‘Is she your girlfriend?’ The same candidate asked.

‘Yeah, she has a thing for cripples.’ House said, sarcastically. ‘You’re fired.’

House moved onto other things.

I went to House’s office for a consult. I found the two groups of candidates in his office and the second I walked in they all looked at me as if they had questions.

‘No.’ I said the second I walked in. ‘I am not helping you with anything.’

‘We just want to know what House wants from us.’ One of them said. ‘How do we win the game?’

I sighed heading over to his desk to check his notes on a previous case that might have helped mine. ‘Just cure the patient. House will make his decision based on his rules and you’ll never find out what they are no matter what you do.’

‘So this is all just random?’ Another one asked.

‘It’s never random.’ I said quietly, my snapping up. ‘I never said that. Just cure the patient.’

I quickly got what I needed and left his office, running into House immediately.

‘Sneaking around to steal my stuff?’ He asked, sarcastically. ‘Or are you on look out duty for Wilson again?’

‘Neither. I needed a consult.’ I said as we went back into his office. The candidates all began speaking at once. ‘Woah woah woah, if I haven’t slept with you, I don’t want to hear you speaking.’

I stayed silent, I wasn’t playing his game either. House just looked at me and breathed heavily.

‘Okay, only outrageously hot British chicks get to speak.’ He gave in. ‘Gimmie the file.’

I handed it over and after a two minute consult I had my answer. I went to take the file but he stopped me.

‘Hey, come over tonight.’ He said, his eyes flickering over my body.

‘Give me a reason.’ I flirted back. House smiled and let the file go. ‘Thank you for the consult.’

I waited for him in the lobby and he just had to make a show of flirting all the way out. I knew the candidates were watching and I just couldn’t seem to care when I saw the look he was giving me.

It was a long night and my body ached amazingly in the morning.

Somehow it still wasn’t enough to stop himself shoving a knife into a wall socket. One of his team had come up to tell me.

‘Is he stable?’ I asked, checking a patient’s heart rate.

‘Erm, yeah, he’s just unconscious.’ She said, I think her name was Amber. ‘He paged me before he did it.’

‘Okay, heart rate is a little high, but everything else looks good, I’ll be back to check on you in a little while.’ I told the patient who nodded.

‘Don’t you care that he tried to kill himself?’ She asked as I guided her out of the room.

I sighed. ‘He didn’t try to kill himself. I don’t know what the hell he was doing, but it wasn’t that.’

‘He stuck a knife into a wall socket.’

‘He paged you. He did it in the middle of a hospital.’ I shot back. ‘That means he wasn’t trying to kill himself.’ I told her. ‘I will visit when I don’t have patients to see. Do not get the wrong impression about the nature of my relationship with Dr House, people have made that mistake before and it didn’t end well.’

‘So, you don’t care?’

‘Of course I care, but he’s insane, he’s going to do insane things every once in a while.’ I took a file that was being handed to me. ‘If you’ll excuse me, I have patients.’

I wandered off to take care of another patient and allowed myself a few moments to absorb what House had done in the privacy of my office. Wilson had been texting me updates anyway.

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[alexadavas]

The Butterfly Who Unfolds Her Wings

A simple, selfless, social butterfly, but an ambitious girl as what they perceive, yes, it is me. I'm Alexa Mae Canaria Davas, 18 years old, a first-year civil engineering student at Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Valenzuela. I'm one of the Dr. Pio Valenzuela scholars for batch number 26 as well.

To be honest, there's nothing special about me. I'm just a typical girl with a lot of pressure and expectations. Why did I say so? I'm the first, or, should I say, the eldest, child of my parents. I have two siblings who are 15 and 5 years old. I've also been an academic achiever from kindergarten until senior high school. Since I am the first child, I have many responsibilities to fulfill. I don't want to fail. I'm scared of failing in all aspects of my life. It would be my biggest downfall. I don't like being a disappointment to my family or, most especially, to myself. My parents did not pressure me that much. In fact, I'm the one who pressures myself since I expect more of myself. I don't have a lot of talents and skills like others do. But I can sing, dance, and make everyone feel wanted and appreciated. I don't want to see people left behind, since I know that kind of feeling. My hobbies are just reading books, watching Asian dramas, and making some fictional stories or quotes about life if I have free time. During my senior high school years, my professors often praised me because of how I constructed words in every essay or other written activity. I don't know, but I like expressing myself through writing rather than being vocal.

I am an ambitious girl, but honestly, I don't know what career or what I want to become. I want to be successful, but I don't know what my dream is. I have a lot of dreams, but I can't see myself in those fields. One thing that I am sure about is that I want to become a cardiologist if I'm lucky enough. If fate allows me to. I want to pursue being a doctor, but sadly, my parents can’t afford for me to study at any private medicine school. Every decision I made was influenced by other people. To tell you the truth, there's no chance that I decided for my own. Taking the course as a civil engineer is not my first choice. It was my third option. I took the STEM strand as my senior high school academic track at Our Lady of Fatima University. For the sake of improving my mathematics skills, I can draw houses too, but I am not as good as others. My parents and relatives want me to study engineering since that’s the only course they can afford and since I’m just about to study at a state university. They also said that engineering can make me successful too since it is in demand and a high-paying job. Given the factors I have mentioned, I considered just taking civil engineering because it was aligned with my senior high school strand, even though I doubt if I can. Every night before entering college, I silently cry since I know that I can't be an engineer because I'm not that "good" at mathematics. and I have no interest in the engineering field. I know for myself that I will be struggling.

This course is very challenging, and it really affects your mental health. There's been a lot of change for me since I started studying engineering. Back then, it was not okay for me to just get at least a passing score because I am a competitive person. I can't afford a low score or grade. I'm always aiming for a high grade. But now, just a passing grade really makes me happy already. I started to like my course, although I was scared to take it before. This course really taught me to be a risk-taker, to believe more in yourself, to study harder and harder, and that it's fine to cry. This is such a fulfilling course that I don't want to be an irregular student and shift to another course next year. I will strive harder to graduate from this course and be a future civil engineer in the near future. I know I can since I have my family, friends, and God by my side.

Shifting from an online class to a face-to-face class again is quite hard. It seems like a new experience to me to be back in a normal class after almost 3 years of online classes. Most especially, you have to maintain safety protocols, and your actions are limited, unlike pre-pandemic. My coping mechanism with this kind of setup is that I have to socialize with other people, but I am still reminded of safety protocols like wearing a face mask and keeping a social distance. Additionally, I'm teaching myself to do group study with my friends and classmates because I was used to studying alone rather than brainstorming, and I'm starting to build my self-confidence in public speaking after not being exposed to other people during lockdown.

To sum it up from this blog, you know the half-side of me. How I chose what course to take in college and my coping mechanisms during the shift of classes from online to face-to-face. To everyone who will be reading this, I hope I can inspire and motivate you that not all the time, what we dreamed of is really meant for us. We need to see the bigger picture, to be practical, and to transcend the things that limit us from being a better version of ourselves. Let's be risk-takers and not be afraid of what lies ahead.

#civil engineering #college student #ambitious #risk-taker #selfless #social butterfly

[dragonedged-if]

15 Tags, 15 Mutuals

I wanna thank you @smzeszikorova for tagging me, also I want to apologize for those who is tagging me and not being able to answer.

For now free tag who wants to join, I'm running late for school lol.

1. Are you named after anyone?

Somewhat yes, My first name is a title; Chancellor, My family is into titles. For example we have; Princess, Duchess, Contessa, Duke.

Yup all titles in the fam lol.

2. When was the last time you cried?

Yesterday but I was crying in laughter because I watching a comedy movie.

3. Do you have kids?

Nope, but I consider my pups and doggy my kids.

4. Do you use sarcasm?

Yup and a lot actually, in tagalog we call that person a “philosopo”.

For example we have a saying in tagalog; Matigas ang ulo mo(You’re so hard headed)

Then we children we will reply; Alangan meron bang malambot na ulu(Well duh? is there a head soft?)

Here's another one and one of my favorite.

Children: Ang init!(It's cold)

Parent: Eh ditangalin mo jacket mo(Then remove your jacket!)

Children: Magiging malamig naman(Then Its gonna be freezing cold)

Then the paretns will whoop the chid's ass lol.

5. What’s the first thing you notice about people?

For me a lot of things because I tend to stay quiet and observe the people around me, I will notice the way they speak, their mannerisms, attitude and etc.

6. What’s your eye color?

Dark brown

7. Scary movies or happy endings?

I like both if possible because I found very cliché’ that in every horror movie that the evil is still alive and the end credits will roll in.

8. Any special talents?

Writing, a good listener , improviser, a confident speaker.

9. Where were you born?

Batangas City, Philippines

10. What are your hobbies?

Writing, listening to music, playing chess, reading, playing video games.

11. Have you any pets?

Yup, 1 mother and 4 rascals pups :)

I named my 4 pups using my favorite ice cream flavors.

Choco, Vanilla, Mocha, Cream(Shortcut for Cookies&Cream)

12. What sports do you play/have played?

A lot actually, badminton, volleyball, basketball, dodgeball and others but I like badminton the most.

13. How tall are you?

I think either 5'6 or 5'7

14. Favorite subject in school?

English, Literature, a bit of science but most of all Social Studies.

15. Dream job?

Finish Medicine and apply for cardiologist.

But the job I’m aiming for is making my parents happy :)

#A Little Info About Me #Nice To Meet Everyone #We Filipinos Love To Use Sarcasm All The Time

[bellytrauma]

Dr. Anise Onata's Depravity

In the sterile environments of the 30th century, Dr. Anise Onata

was a woman of note. A young and promising cardiologist, she was a standout among her peers. And yet, amidst all her accomplishments, she felt an insatiable hunger. A craving for power, purpose, and passion that transcended the normal scope of her generation's monotony.

Anise was a deviant who had a fascination with a time when life was raw, unfiltered, and brutal. So, when presented with the opportunity to embark on an experimental trip using an interdimensional time machine, she didn't hesitate. She stepped into the machine, her heart pounding with anticipation and a bit of trepidation, and transported herself to a medieval Nordic civilization, a world ravaged by war and blood feuds.

Her sudden appearance in the land of icy winds and raging battles was seen as an otherworldly event by the natives. Her unique complexion, a stark contrast to the fair-skinned inhabitants, coupled with her sophisticated medical knowledge, quickly established her as a figure of both intrigue and utility. Seeing a chance to fulfill her desire for power and purpose, Anise requested to be a soldier - a request that took the kingdom by surprise but was nonetheless granted due to her strange allure and obvious capabilities.

In no time, she rose through the ranks, her knowledge of anatomy and mastery of martial arts proving invaluable in the battlefield. She became a figure of dread to her enemies, a dark-skinned Valkyrie who danced with death, her movements swift, precise, and deadly. But it wasn't the war that enticed Anise. Rather, she found an unforeseen thrill in the chaos of battle, in the sight of warriors thrown into the mortal game of kings and tribes.

In this maelstrom of violence and grit, her gaze fell on her purpose: a blonde woman, her fair skin a stark contrast to the dirt and blood-stained battlefield. She was an embodiment of vitality and strength, lithe yet resilient, standing out amidst the chaos. She was just another pawn in the war but to Anise, a precious gem. Anise was no soldier she was a hunter driven by her own wild, unorthodox desires to a place she could live out her fantasies.

She claimed her as her own, declaring her intentions to her soldiers. Dr. Onata’s rush toward the fair-skinned woman was not driven by the intention to slay, but to claim. She charged, her heart pounding, each beat echoing her intent. She was careful not to harm the angelic beauty more than she had to. She found an opening, swiftly knocking the woman off her feet with a sweep of her boot, her well-practiced maneuver enough to disarm the confused soldier.

Seeing the vulnerable woman sprawled in the dirt, her chest rising and falling with each desperate breath, a rush of power surged through Anise. The battlefield became an arena, and she was the gladiator. She could claim any life, exert any measure of force, and in that moment, the fair-skinned warrior's life was entirely in her hands.

Anise raised the hammer over the trembling, heaving bare abdomen, then slammed it downward in punishing blows. The sound that followed was disturbingly satisfying. Each hit resulted in a wet squelch, the sound of internal organs shifting uncomfortably to accommodate the invasive pressure. This was punctuated by the woman's forced, heady groans, her body's desperate attempt to vocalize the internal upheaval, each expulsion of air a testament to the reality of her suffering. She raised the war hammer for another blow, but the blonde twisted away from her; a vain attempting to escape her gaze, her body writhing in a blend of pain and desperation.

Not yet, Anise thought. She was not done punishing this magnificent landscape of taut muscles and pale skin. She placed her foot on the woman's hip, bringing her to her back and keeping her firmly in place. As Anise felt the pressure of time pulling her from her spot, she held her aim on the woman's heaving solar plexus. The intention was clear - to exert dominance and drain the vitality from her conquered prize and take her home.

Each impact was a symphony of disturbing sounds - the guttural thud of metal against flesh, the sharp intake of breath turned into a strangled groan, the crackle of the air as it was forcefully expelled from the woman's lungs. The sound echoed across the now nearly empty battlefield, a morbid melody that sang tales of Anise's ruthlessness. A red mark bloomed against the fair skin, a stark contrast against the previously unblemished landscape of her body. The woman’s toned abdominal muscles disrupted by the external force.

Each subsequent blow was a chilling repetition of the previous, the sounds of the impacts intermingling with the pained gasps and choked groans of the fair-skinned woman. Her eyes held a mixture of defiance and desperation, a silent plea that went unheeded as Anise remained steadfast in her purpose.

As the blows continued, the woman's breaths grew ragged, each gasp for air sounding more laborious than the last.

Gradually, the bright blue of the woman's eyes began to dim, the vibrancy being replaced by a glazed look as her consciousness started to slip away. The tremors in her body grew weaker, her breaths becoming shallow, her groans tapering off until they were nothing but feeble whispers.

With a last labored exhale, she succumbed to Anise's domination of her breaths, her body going limp under Anise’s imposing figure, ready to be picked up and claimed as a trophy of war.

#belly destruction #belly pain #ryona

[riddled-fingers]

As an actual physician who cares too much about TMA to not have an annoying opinion about which medical speciality the team would have

Jon - idk if it's different in the US but I'm not aware of something like a "general diagnostician"? The closest I can think of is family medicine, which requires A LOT of patient contact and social skills. I'm not saying he couldn't be in family med, but he would have a Reputation. Maybe he's actually good at his job, but a lot of his patients ask for another doctor or second opinions.

Tim - Cardiology is extremely competitive and has (depending on the location) a kind of macho culture. Tim may have aimed to become a cardiologist at some point, but no matter how hardworking he is, his sociable slacker attitude might rub people the wrong way. He might have pivoted to family med, pediatrics, psych or geriatrics. Or maybe internal med? (I just really love the picture of a bi slut being good with old people and both internal med and geriatrics works for that.) OR he's in interventional radiology and opening all those blocked coronary vessels FOR cardiology, just to piss them off.

Sasha - oh she's absolutely a neurologist. That or rheumatology. Or nephrology. Something complex that requires a lot of mental gymnastics that she can make look easy.

Martin - yeah he might end up in oncology on his social skills alone. It's definitely the place for some some self-sacrificing to burn themself from both ends. That or family medicine - they juggle so many patients with so little resources.

as someone whos not an actual physician but still cares abt tma a lot i can also see these for them

jon having to work in a position that has a lot of social skills is so funny to me actually. because sure he's really good at what he does so people Recommend him but at the same time well. mr sims is not known for his social graces

love this tho ☺️✨

#sable screams #tma #tma au #asks #actual smart people finding my blog........ #i have done! like not an ounce of research into the medical field or what its like! so #feel free to educate me i literally just thought of the house md au like an hour before i went to work

[drshains]

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[cardiologistcareerpath]

College Expectations

Embarking on the exciting journey towards a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering as my strategic pathway to becoming a cardiologist, I envision an enriching college experience characterized by a seamless fusion of engineering principles with the intricacies of medical practice. My academic pursuits will extend beyond the traditional classroom setting, involving active participation in cutting-edge projects that specifically focus on advancing cardiovascular care, particularly in medical imaging and wearable technologies. This practical application of knowledge forms a crucial bridge between theory and real-world impact, setting the stage for a comprehensive understanding of the field. Beyond academics, my commitment to a well-rounded college experience involves immersive engagement with the medical community. Through hands-on experiences like shadowing seasoned cardiologists, I aim to gain invaluable insights into the daily challenges and complexities inherent in cardiovascular care. These experiences will deepen my theoretical understanding and provide a holistic perspective, aligning my academic endeavors with the realities of patient outcomes and medical interventions. Networking is pivotal in my vision for college, where I aspire to build connections within the biomedical engineering and medical communities. Actively participating in campus activities tailored to healthcare and medicine, I seek to create a robust support network that extends well beyond the confines of lecture halls. These connections will offer collaborative opportunities and foster mentorship, guiding my growth both academically and professionally. Furthermore, my commitment extends to interdisciplinary exploration, where I eagerly embrace collaborative projects intertwining biomedical engineering with emerging fields such as data science and artificial intelligence in healthcare. This forward-thinking approach enhances my problem-solving skills and positions me at the forefront of technological innovation in medicine. Cultural competence and global awareness are integral components of my college journey. Engaging in service-learning experiences and volunteer opportunities will expose me to diverse patient populations, refining my approach to patient care. Exciting prospects of international exposure, whether through study abroad programs, medical mission trips, or global health initiatives, will enrich my perspective on healthcare systems and contribute to a more global understanding of cardiovascular challenges. Staying informed about healthcare policy and administration is another layer to my comprehensive approach. Understanding the broader landscape of healthcare delivery empowers me to contribute meaningfully to discussions on improving patient outcomes, accessibility, and overall healthcare efficiency. My vision for an ideal college experience encompasses a dynamic interplay of academic excellence, hands-on experiences, networking, interdisciplinary exploration, cultural competence, global awareness, and a keen understanding of healthcare policy. This multifaceted approach is the blueprint for a well-rounded and transformative journey toward realizing my dream of becoming a cardiologist.

[phawareglobal]

Nancy Halnon, MD - phaware® interview 446

Pediatric cardiologist, Nancy Halnon, MD, discusses treatment goals for pulmonary hypertension, the various routes of administration and the importance of using combination therapy to improve survival. 

Hello, I'm Dr. Nancy Halnon. I'm a pediatric cardiologist at Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA and I take care of a lot of kids who have pulmonary hypertension. I want to talk a little bit about the treatments that we use. I'll start with what the goals are for the treatment. It's not like an infection that you can use an antibiotic and kill the infection. Pulmonary hypertension is a disorder that's going to be with you. Depending on what causes it, there's probably not a way to cure it, so it's going to be a chronic disorder that you're going to live with for a long time. 

Our treatment goals, therefore are going to have more to do with minimizing symptoms to make your symptoms more manageable, to improve your functional capacity, your ability to be able to do things, to exercise, to be active, to do regular living exercises and activities to work, to go to school, that kind of thing. Also, we aim to improve some of the hemodynamics, some of the physiology of the pulmonary hypertension. The goal of that is to protect the rest of your body that might be impacted by the pulmonary hypertension. To protect your heart a little bit, to protect your liver, to protect other organs. 

We want to try to prevent clinical worsening if we can. Sometimes some of the treatments we use, maybe they won't reverse the disorder, but they can help to prevent it from progressing so quickly. Overall, we want to improve your quality of life and we want to improve survival. Sometimes the treatment of the pulmonary hypertension isn't so much to treat the pulmonary hypertension is maybe to help treat the heart disease that led to the pulmonary hypertension. Then, sometimes the treatment isn't for noticeable symptoms that you have, but to prevent complications in the setting of heart disease, especially patients who might have surgery or a heart transplant. In general, the targets are really the physiology and not often the pathology because we're really limited in what we can do about the pathology itself. 

The choices that we make for the treatments are going to depend on a lot of factors. For example, you know how severe your disease is, the more severe your disease is, the more aggressively we're going to use medications and other therapies. Sometimes it's going to be based on what we have available to you, what's approved for use in your particular situation. Often most of the medications that we use for children at least they're partially tested but not really labeled for use in children. So we might be a little bit limited in how we can use it. The root of administration matters. There are inhaled medications for example, that the devices that are used for the inhalation are a little bit difficult to use for people who maybe can't follow instructions to breathe them in or inhale them in the right way. Imagine trying to use an inhaler with a toddler, especially one that has to be used in a certain way at a certain frequency and things like that. So we might be limited in what we can use based on the root of the administration. 

Some people don't tolerate side effects from one medication or another medication and then we make choices based on that. Sometimes there's a preference for one medication or another from the patient themself. We can always discuss what might work out better for you. Sometimes the experience with medications, especially for the kids, certain medications that we just have a lot more experience with than others. So our comfort level as physicians in using them, we might have a preference for one medication or another because we're just more familiar with it. We're more familiar with the side effects. We're more familiar with adjusting the doses. We're more familiar in what kind of efficacy we can expect. 

We often use multiple medications because they target different pathways of the physiology of pulmonary hypertension. So you can often have an additive effect. So one medication may do a little, a second medication added on may do a little more. Sometimes together they can be better than either of the effects alone. There's also the setting of clinical trials. Most of the medications are approved for adults first. They're tested in adults first. The absorption of the medication is known best for adults. The metabolism of the medication is going to be known best for adults. But there's a role for clinical trials for children, even if the drug doesn't eventually reach approval, at least it gives some supervised and experience in using it in how to administer it to kids, maybe using it, the timing of the administration maybe could be a little different. The route of administration, whether it's pills or it's crushed or not crushed or mixed with water or not or taken with food or not. Things like that might be different for children than they are for adults, and a clinical trial can help to address some of those differences in the way that it might be used. 

The clinical trials that we do for kids also are targeted to demonstrate the efficacy, because the reasons and the severity and features of the pulmonary hypertension in children might be different, so a drug that works great for adults maybe won't work as well for kids and we'll want to know that rather than just use everything that there is because there. We'll want to know that it's actually helpful.

The current approved and available treatments for pulmonary hypertension work along three pathways. One is the nitric oxide pathway. Nitric oxide is a chemical that your body makes and it's a very powerful chemical that causes blood vessels to dilate. The next is the endothelium pathway. Endothelium is a chemical that's made by cells in your blood vessels and it causes a lot of constriction of blood vessels. Sometimes constriction of blood vessels is a good thing to happen in your body, but in your lung blood vessels, it's not as helpful. So the drugs that target this pathway are going to oppose the effect of the endothelium. Finally, there’s the prostacyclin pathway. Prostacyclin again is a chemical that's produced in your body and it affects blood vessels as well, causing them to dilate, but using a different part of the cell physiology than the nitric oxide uses. So you can use all three of these different categories of medications together because they're all targeting different parts of the constriction and dilation properties of blood vessels.

The drugs that target the nitric oxide pathway are going to increase guanylate cyclase. They're going to cause a very direct vasodilation, which means that the blood vessels relax. They work particularly well for the lung arteries, especially if you just use the drug as an inhaled drug. In the hospital, we use nitric oxide inhaled a lot. You can put it through a ventilator or you can put it in a nasal cannula. We use it a lot in inpatients in the hospital. It's not something that can be used outside the hospital, but it's very quick acting because as soon as you breathe it in, it's going to have effect and as soon as you take it away, it stops having the effect. 

More practical for use at home would be drugs that help to prevent breakdown of phosphodiesterase, which helps to prevent the breakdown of the guanylate cyclase and allows the nitric oxide to stay around longer. So the drugs that work in this pathway are Sildenafil or Tadalafil. Sildenafil was the first drug that was found. Some of the original marketing for that drug was for erectile dysfunction, but it also allowed for that drug to be developed and created for the use for a more rare disease, pulmonary hypertension, when otherwise there just wouldn't have been as much motivation for a drug company to make something like that. 

Sildenafil is the first. It's a little bit more difficult to use than Tadalafil because Sildenafil has to be used three times a day compared to Tadalafil, which you can take once a day, but there are some patients who prefer it. The side effects are pretty similar for the two drugs, usually a little bit of flushing, sometimes a little swelling, but usually pretty tolerable. Very, very, very commonly used. These are very available drugs again because they're used for other disease, so they're very easy to get. Pharmacies always have it, and so it's a great drug to start with. 

There's some drugs that also stimulate the guanylate cyclase. The newest one is called Adempas. The chemical name is riociguat. It's a newer drug, which had more recent approval. There's not much information about using it in kids, so my own experience with it is a little more limited, but it also works through the same pathway. So you'd use either Sildenafil or Tadalafil or the Adempas, but you wouldn't use any combination of those. 

The next category are the endothelial receptor antagonists. They bind the endothelial receptors and so prevent that chemical from engaging in the blood vessels and causing that constriction. There's several of these drugs, Bosentan, Ambrisentan, and Macitentan. Of those three, the Macitentan is probably becoming much, much, much more common to use, especially for older children and adults. It's a drug that you can use once a day. The common side effects for that are kind of similar to what you see with the nitric oxide pathway drugs, which is things like flushing, headaches, but there's also a couple of other side effects that are a little more particular to this group of medications, particularly the Bosentan, which is some liver toxicity. So that's why when if you're taking particularly Bosentan, you have to have blood work done pretty frequently to monitor for toxic side effects. 

You definitely cannot take these drugs while you're pregnant, so if you're entertaining a pregnancy, you need to discuss with your doctor about that, because they're particularly toxic to a fetus. While you take the drugs if you're a female of reproductive age, you're going to have to have pregnancy tests monthly. So it's a little bit cumbersome to do it, but most folks, once they've started to get kind of in the rhythm of going for their monthly pregnancy test, it becomes a routine and it's not as bad as it sounds when you kind of talk about it on paper.

These drugs are dispensed by specialty pharmacies, because particularly they do need to monitor for pregnancy and things like that. They're a little more paperwork intensive for the prescriber, and so you're going to want to make sure that your doctor's invested in being able to manage this sort of process. If you could benefit from it, but your physician just isn't familiar with it or comfortable with it or registered to prescribe it, you may want to discuss with them if there's other centers to help to augment some of your care so that you can have access to some of these other remedies. 

The next group of drugs act in that prostacyclin pathway, and there's a big variety of medications in this category. Again, if you use one, you're going to use only one from these categories. These are drugs that we tend to use in patients with a little bit more severe disease. We might use one of the drugs from the first two categories in patients with mild or mild to moderate pulmonary hypertension, but these prostacyclin analogs are going to be drugs that are going to be more in the patients who have more severe and significant disease. One of them is Treprostinil, also called Remodulin. It's used mostly intravenously or by a little pump that's injecting under the skin. It's kind of like the little pumps that they use for insulin if you've ever seen those. Those are maybe a little more commonly seen in people, but it's a little pump kind of like that. That drug can be used subcutaneously. The pumps take a little bit of maintenance and care. They're not very hard to use. They're dispensed by specialty pharmacies who have nurses and other people who can assist with using these pumps and things like that. If it's suggested, you don't have to be that intimidated by it, you're going to be supported in using it. 

Again, the side effects are going to be kind of similar to some of the other medications, headaches, flushing, sometimes some diarrhea, rash, jaw pain. For particular drugs, maybe other couple of other side effects. The side effect profile is a little more common for these drugs, but then again, their efficacy for somebody with really severe disease is also going to be a lot higher. So that trade-off is usually going to be worthwhile. Epoprostenol is Flolan. That's only used by IV. That drug has been around the longest of all of these, so there's a lot of experience with use of it. Selexipag is probably the newer of all of these, also called UPTRAVI. It's an oral drug, which is kind of a game changer compared to using a pump or using IV. It's really great because it's much easier to administer if you can just use pills. 

When you use it, you titrate the dose up. There's common maximum dose, but you can go up quite a bit if you need to. The same with the Treprostinil. This drug does not have a pediatric labeling at this point and not a really great pediatric formulation. It's tablets, but the tablets come in a fairly small dose and you use multiple of the tablets depending on what dose you're going to take of the drug. 

There's a clinical trial that's about to close, the SALTO trial, so we'll probably have a much better idea of how to use it best in children. But right now we do use it in children because it is approved for adults and we can extend its use down quite a bit. It's not something that we're going to use in infants or really small children quite yet until we have a little more information about it, about how best to use it, and especially if there's a formulation like a liquid formulation or something like that.

Iloprost is a little bit different medication. It's used quite a bit for adults, a little bit less for children because it's a little bit hard to use. It's an inhaled medication. You have to use it pretty frequently over the course of the day, usually six to nine times per day. It takes five to 10 minutes per inhalation, so it's a little bit cumbersome to do. For that reason, it's maybe a little less popular than the Selexipag or the Treprostinil. Just imagine trying to get you through your workday if you know six times during the day you have to take a 15 minute break to take out your little machine and administer the drug, but it is effective and sometimes it's a better tolerated way to use it.

So in general, these drugs, because of how complicated they can be to use, they're going to be reserved for more severe cases. Sometimes we have to switch from one version to the other depending on if, for example, you have intravenous administration and you have a problem with a line infection or something like that, you may be best switching off to one of the other administration routes with one of the other drugs.

Pulmonary hypertension that maybe is short term, maybe associated with acute illness or something like that, you might only use something like the Tadalafil or the Sildenafil because it will have effect pretty quickly. You can use it for a short time and maybe something will resolve or something will get better, and then you might not need it again. So it's easy on, easy off. Medications from the endothelium pathway tend to take longer to have any effect. So if you're in a sort of acute situation, it's probably not going to have its maximum benefit for a few months. If we encounter a patient who comes in with undiagnosed or previously undiagnosed very severe pulmonary hypertension, we might start with all three medications all at the same time. 

We'll use the nitric oxide inhaled right away. We'll use the Sildenafil or Tadalafil right away and start the Bosentan and start maybe the Selexipag or the Remodulin. The Selexipag and Remodulin take a little time to ramp up sometimes between a few days and a few weeks, even a month or two, depending on the side effects and how quickly we can titrate up. The Bosentan tends not to have much effect right away, but over time it will. So a more minor situation where you can slowly ramp up medications, you might start with Sildenafil, Tadalafil, one of those two and maybe Bocentin or Macitentan, and see what you do for a few months before using the more difficult to administer drugs until you figure out that you're not getting as much effect as you need. So it could be any or all the above. 

Finally, there are drugs about to hit the market, we hope. Sotatercept is a brand new drug. It doesn't work in these usual pathways that have to do with vasoconstriction and vasodilation. It works more in remodeling the blood vessels and the blood vessel growth. It alters the balance between some of the proliferation and anti-proliferation signals in blood vessel wall formation. So it restores some of the normal growth and cell function to the pulmonary arteries. It's not been approved for clinical use for pulmonary hypertension yet, so it is not going to be available right now. The company has projected that sometime during 2024 it will probably reach approval. The trial data is completed for adults and it looked quite promising. It was people who were already on at least one or two of the other kinds of medications, and even above any effect that they had had from the other medications, it improved the six minute walk test distance. That translates directly into a daily living kind of effect, which is really, really good for patients. 

There's a clinical trial in children being developed, should be starting soon. This drug is administered by injection initially, it's every three weeks. The long-term use is not really well described yet. The drug, it's still a little bit too new. The trials that were performed to try to get the approval from the FDA to use it for pulmonary hypertension were trials that looked at effect at 24 weeks. So only about six months of use. So long-term effects aren't really well described yet. It's just a little bit too new. 

So, there's a lot of medications to use for pulmonary hypertension. Experience with kids is a little bit less, but with experience with adults is quite good. There's a long track record for some of the medications, but new medications on the way. Overall, it's often helpful to use medications from multiple categories. So rather than have a one and done kind of treatment mentality, using cocktails of medications can be really helpful. Overall, if you have any questions, you can always reach out to me. 

My name is Dr. Nancy Halnon and I'm aware that my patients are rare.

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This Cardiomyopathy is a disease in which the heart muscle, is stretched or has another structural problem.  In stress-induced cardiomyopathy, the useful and structural changes to the myocardium are reversible. They may resolve within days or even weeks with therapy methods that use diuretics and nitrates and are aimed toward decreasing life-threatening issues. The European Society of Cardiology orders cardiomyopathies in accordance with morphological and useful phenotypes. Cardiomyopathies can be further subdivided based on the underlying condition. A coronary angiogram could additionally be considered when there is doubt over the diagnosis or if heart illness is suspected as the trigger – Cardiomyopathy

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Northwestern Memorial Hospital Doctors, Appointment, Address, Emergency Department, Medical Specialists

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Northwestern Memorial Hospital Doctors, Appointment, Address, Emergency Department, Medical Specialists

Northwestern Memorial Hospital Doctors

Northwestern Memorial Hospital Doctors: Pioneers of Medical Excellence

Situated in the heart of Chicago, Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) stands as one of the premier healthcare institutions not just in the state of Illinois but across the nation. The hospital’s reputation is built on many factors, but one of the most influential among them is the cadre of dedicated doctors and medical professionals who grace its halls.

From renowned cardiologists to pioneering neurosurgeons, NMH’s medical staff represents the crème de la crème of their respective fields. Their expertise is derived from years of rigorous training, research, and hands-on patient care, making them some of the most sought-after specialists in the world. Each physician at NMH doesn’t just practice medicine; they redefine it, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible and consistently enhancing the standards of patient care.

NMH doctors have been instrumental in pioneering various medical treatments and procedures. Their rigorous research and relentless pursuit of innovation have led to breakthroughs that have changed the course of medicine. The hospital’s medical staff is also deeply committed to education, often playing pivotal roles in teaching the next generation of doctors at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.

The interdisciplinary approach at NMH ensures that patients don’t just see a doctor but a team of specialists working collaboratively to provide comprehensive care. For instance, cancer patients at NMH don’t just have an oncologist; they have a whole team of specialists, including radiologists, pathologists, and surgeons, ensuring that every aspect of their care is optimized.

However, what truly sets the doctors at NMH apart is their unwavering commitment to the patients. They believe that medicine isn’t just about diagnosing illnesses and prescribing medications; it’s about connecting with patients on a human level, understanding their concerns, hopes, and fears. This empathetic approach, combined with their unparalleled expertise, ensures that patients at NMH not only receive the best medical care but also feel heard, understood, and valued.

Community outreach is another domain where NMH doctors shine. Many are involved in local and global health initiatives, aiming to make quality healthcare accessible to all, irrespective of their socio-economic status. They often volunteer their time and expertise in underserved areas, both domestically and internationally, emphasizing the hospital’s commitment to global health and wellness.

In conclusion, while Northwestern Memorial Hospital boasts state-of-the-art facilities, cutting-edge technology, and a legacy of excellence, it’s the doctors who truly make the institution extraordinary. Their dedication, expertise, compassion, and commitment to innovation and education make them more than just physicians; they are pioneers, educators, researchers, and most importantly, healers. When one enters NMH, they can be assured that they’re in the hands of some of the best doctors in the world, who are dedicated to providing unparalleled care with compassion and dignity.

Northwestern Memorial Hospital Appointment

Appointments at Northwestern Memorial Hospital: An Insight into Patient-Centric Healthcare

Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH), located in the heart of Chicago, stands as a beacon of modern medicine, merging research-driven care with a compassionate approach. Its commitment to patient well-being is manifest not just in its state-of-the-art facilities or its world-class professionals, but also in the careful crafting of its appointment processes. For many, the act of scheduling and attending a medical appointment can be an overwhelming experience. NMH has taken strides to transform this experience into one of comfort, clarity, and ease.

From the moment a patient considers seeking care at NMH, they’re introduced to an intuitive system. The hospital’s digital platforms are equipped with user-friendly interfaces, allowing patients to make online appointments, access their medical records, and communicate directly with their healthcare providers. This digital convenience is particularly beneficial for the younger generation, who often prefer online interactions.

However, for those who aren’t as tech-savvy or those who simply prefer a human touch, NMH’s dedicated appointment hotline, staffed by trained professionals, offers personalized assistance. These representatives are not just trained in the logistical aspects of appointment scheduling but also in patient care, ensuring every caller feels heard and valued.

For international patients, NMH extends its global reach. Recognizing the challenges that come with seeking medical care abroad, the hospital has a specialized department to assist international patients with every aspect of their medical journey, from appointment scheduling to accommodations in Chicago.

The hospital’s commitment to patient-centricity goes beyond the initial appointment. For instance, wait times have been an age-old concern in many healthcare institutions. NMH tackles this by continuously analyzing patient flow and peak times to optimize staffing and minimize patient wait times. They understand that a patient’s time is valuable, and long waits can add unnecessary stress to an already anxious situation.

Additionally, the hospital understands that healthcare isn’t a one-size-fits-all. Different departments, from cardiology to neurology, have their specific nuances. Each department at NMH has tailored its appointment procedures to cater to the unique needs of its patients, ensuring specialized care from the outset.

Follow-up care is also an integral part of NMH’s appointment ethos. Once an initial appointment is completed, patients receive reminders for follow-up visits, tests, or procedures. This proactive approach ensures that patients are not left in the lurch, wondering about the next steps in their healthcare journey.

In essence, the appointment procedures at Northwestern Memorial Hospital are a testament to their overarching philosophy: that patient care extends beyond just medical treatments. It encompasses every touchpoint of a patient’s journey, from the initial phone call or online booking to the post-care follow-ups. Through these meticulous processes, NMH not only showcases its commitment to excellence in medical care but also in delivering an unparalleled patient experience.

Northwestern Memorial Hospital Address

Northwestern Memorial Hospital: A Beacon of Health in Chicago’s Landscape

Nestled amidst the towering skyscrapers and iconic landmarks of Chicago is Northwestern Memorial Hospital — an institution that represents the pinnacle of healthcare in the Midwest. Its location, right in the heart of Chicago, not only facilitates local residents but serves as a beacon for patients hailing from diverse geographical backgrounds.

This sprawling health facility is strategically placed, making it easily accessible whether you’re coming from the northern suburbs, the southern boroughs, or from states afar. The thoroughfares and major transit lines converging near the hospital play an essential role in ensuring its reputation as a convenient medical destination. But why is it so crucial for patients, caregivers, and visitors to have a clear understanding of the hospital’s address and the nuances of reaching there?

Firstly, in times of medical emergencies, every second count. When critical situations arise, the clarity of an address can make the difference between timely medical intervention and unwanted delays. Northwestern Memorial, being an advanced tertiary care facility, often sees cases that require immediate attention. In such scenarios, a straightforward and easily navigable address can be a lifesaver, quite literally.

Moreover, for out-of-town patients or those unfamiliar with Chicago’s intricate city layout, the hospital’s address serves as a reliable guide. It’s not just about reaching the hospital; it’s about doing so with minimal stress. Healthcare journeys are often fraught with anxiety, and the ease of finding one’s way can alleviate a small, yet significant portion of that anxiety.

But Northwestern Memorial Hospital is more than just its physical address in the city. It’s about the confluence of world-class medical professionals, state-of-the-art technology, and compassionate patient care. When individuals from various walks of life converge at this address, they aren’t just arriving at a physical location; they’re stepping into a sanctuary of healing and hope.

While the infrastructure and facilities are undoubtedly top-notch, it’s the people that truly make a difference. From the diligent administrative staff ensuring smooth operations round the clock to the dedicated team of doctors and nurses who work tirelessly, they all converge at this address, making Northwestern Memorial the institution of repute it is today.

In conclusion, while the address of Northwestern Memorial Hospital is a logistical tool guiding patients and visitors to its doors, it symbolizes much more. It stands as a testament to the commitment, excellence, and dedication that lies within its walls. Whether you’re a Chicago native or a visitor seeking unparalleled medical care, this address is your gateway to a world of medical excellence.

Northwestern Memorial Hospital Emergency Department

Northwestern Memorial Hospital Emergency Department: An Oasis of Rapid Response in Chicago’s Medical Landscape

The city of Chicago, with its vast urban expanse and ever-active populace, witnesses countless incidents every day that require immediate medical attention. Nestled in the heart of this sprawling metropolis, the Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Emergency Department stands as a vanguard of urgent medical care, prepared to tackle emergencies that span the spectrum of severity.

From the moment one enters the emergency wing, there’s an evident air of urgency, but also a sense of control. This equilibrium is a testament to the department’s intricate planning, state-of-the-art infrastructure, and more importantly, its team of highly skilled professionals. These medical practitioners come armed with years of training and experience, making them adept at recognizing, assessing, and managing a plethora of medical crises.

However, what truly sets the Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Emergency Department apart from others is its commitment to holistic patient care. The facility understands that an emergency doesn’t just impact an individual physically, but emotionally and mentally as well. Therefore, along with world-class medical treatments, the department provides comprehensive psychological and emotional support, ensuring that patients and their families are eased through their medical ordeal.

The integration of cutting-edge technology further elevates the care provided. From the latest diagnostic tools to state-of-the-art surgical equipment, every aspect of patient treatment is enhanced by technology. It speeds up diagnosis, ensures accurate treatment, and often makes the difference between life and death.

Training is another cornerstone of the Emergency Department. Regular drills, workshops, and training sessions are conducted, keeping the staff updated with the latest in medical advancements and best practices. This not only ensures that patients receive the best care but also prepares the department to handle mass casualty incidents with finesse.

Of course, in the backdrop of all this, is the hospital’s broader ethos of community service. The Emergency Department doesn’t just serve those who walk through its doors but extends its services to the larger Chicago community. Outreach programs, community awareness sessions, and free clinics are frequently organized, underscoring the department’s commitment to Chicago’s well-being.

In essence, the Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Emergency Department is more than just a medical facility. It’s a haven for those in their most vulnerable moments, a hub of medical excellence, and a testament to the undying spirit of Chicago. Through its unwavering dedication, state-of-the-art approach, and compassionate care, it reassures every individual that, even in the face of the gravest emergencies, they’re in the safest hands.

Northwestern Memorial Hospital Medical Specialists

Northwestern Memorial Hospital Medical Specialists: Pioneers in Medical Excellence

Nestled in the bustling heart of Chicago, the Northwestern Memorial Hospital is more than just a healthcare facility; it is a hub of medical innovation, research, and unmatched expertise. One of the pillars holding up this renowned institution’s reputation is its exceptional roster of medical specialists. These experts are not just practitioners of medicine but are artisans in their craft, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in healthcare every day.

From the moment one steps into the corridors of the Northwestern Memorial Hospital, there’s a palpable sense of being in an institution that prioritizes excellence. This sentiment is validated further when patients and their families interact with the medical specialists on staff. Each specialist, whether they’re a world-renowned cardiologist, a trailblazing neurologist, or an innovative oncologist, brings a unique blend of vast experience, profound knowledge, and a deep commitment to patient care.

However, what truly sets these medical specialists apart is their approach to medicine. In an era where healthcare can often feel transactional, the experts at Northwestern Memorial Hospital emphasize a patient-centric approach. They are known to foster a bond of trust, ensuring that every patient feels heard, understood, and valued. Such relationships often lead to more personalized care, where treatments are tailored not just to address the ailment but also to suit the individual needs and circumstances of the patient.

Beyond the direct patient care, the specialists at Northwestern Memorial Hospital are at the forefront of medical research. Many of them juggle roles as educators, researchers, and practitioners, enriching the global medical community with their findings. Their endeavors in the lab and in clinical trials often translate to revolutionary treatments and therapies that set new standards in medicine. This spirit of innovation ensures that the hospital remains at the cutting edge, constantly evolving and improving.

Furthermore, interdisciplinary collaboration is a hallmark of care at Northwestern Memorial. The specialists here don’t work in silos. A patient’s care team often comprises experts from various fields, ensuring a holistic treatment approach. This collaborative ethos extends beyond the hospital’s walls, with many specialists partnering with global experts, sharing knowledge, and ensuring that the care provided is based on the latest global best practices.

In conclusion, while the Northwestern Memorial Hospital boasts state-of-the-art facilities, advanced technologies, and groundbreaking research initiatives, it’s the medical specialists who truly define the institution. Their relentless commitment to pushing the frontiers of medicine, coupled with their genuine compassion for patients, makes them the beating heart of the hospital. For those seeking care that marries expertise with empathy, there’s no looking beyond the medical specialists at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

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How to Lower Lipids: A Guide to Managing Cholesterol and Triglycerides

In the pursuit of a healthy lifestyle, managing lipid levels is a critical aspect that should not be overlooked. Lipids, including cholesterol and triglycerides, play essential roles in the body, such as forming cell membranes and producing hormones. However, an excess of these lipids in the bloodstream can lead to serious health issues, including heart disease and stroke. If you're concerned about high lipid levels, fret not, as there are effective strategies to help you lower them and promote overall well-being. In this article, we'll explore some practical steps to manage your cholesterol and triglycerides levels.

1. Balanced Diet: 

One of the most influential factors in lipid management is the food you consume daily. Adopting a balanced diet can have a significant impact on reducing cholesterol and triglycerides levels. Focus on eating more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins while reducing the intake of saturated and trans fats. Opt for healthier cooking methods like baking, grilling, or steaming, and limit processed and fried foods. Incorporating foods rich in Omega-3 fatty acids, such as fatty fish (salmon, mackerel, and sardines), flaxseeds, and walnuts, can also help lower triglycerides.

2. Regular Exercise: 

Physical activity is another crucial element in lipid management. Engaging in regular exercise can increase high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, which is known as the "good" cholesterol, and decrease low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and triglycerides. Aim for at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise or 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity exercise per week, along with muscle-strengthening activities on two or more days. Activities like brisk walking, jogging, swimming, and cycling are excellent choices to get your heart pumping.

3. Maintain a Healthy Weight: 

Maintaining a healthy weight is closely tied to lipid management. If you are overweight or obese, shedding even a small amount of excess weight can positively impact your cholesterol and triglycerides levels. Combining a balanced diet with regular exercise will not only help you lose weight but also improve your lipid profile.

4. Manage Stress: 

Chronic stress can indirectly impact your lipid levels by leading to unhealthy behaviors like overeating, smoking, or excessive alcohol consumption. Find healthy ways to manage stress, such as practicing mindfulness, yoga, meditation, or engaging in hobbies that you enjoy.

5. Medication, if Necessary: 

In some cases, lifestyle changes may not be enough to sufficiently lower lipid levels. If your cholesterol or triglycerides remain high despite adopting a healthy lifestyle, your doctor may prescribe medication to help manage them. Always follow your doctor's recommendations and take medications as prescribed.

6. Regular Check-ups: 

Regular visits to your healthcare provider are crucial for monitoring your lipid levels. The lipid profile test measures various components, including total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and triglycerides. These check-ups will help you track your progress, identify any potential issues, and make necessary adjustments to your healthcare plan.

Conclusion:

 Lowering lipids, specifically cholesterol and triglycerides, is a vital step toward reducing the risk of heart disease and promoting overall health.

 Remember, it's essential to consult with your dietician before making significant changes to your diet or exercise routine, and if required, you have to consult a cardiologist as they can provide personalised guidance based on your individual health needs.

Top Cardiologists in India: 

Dr. Pankaj Gupta

Dr. Anand Chopda

Dr. K A V Ganesh

Dr. Karthik Bhosale

Top Cardiologists in Trinidad and Tobago:

Dr. Risshi Rampersad

Dr. Kurt Furlonge

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We at MangoHomz strongly believe in the old Indian way of thinking that everyone should be healthy and happy. No one should be hurt. We fill a significant void in the Indian clinical tourism industry by providing patient-friendly hotels near aiims delhi and your preferred emergency clinic.

Complex clinical treatments and strategies such as malignant growth treatment, cardiology treatment, advanced dentistry, fertility treatment and medical procedures that repair or repair muscles require advanced skills and state-of-the-art medical offices that may not be available in your old neighbourhood.

You may have to travel to another city, state or country to access the best specialists, an A-list emergency number and the latest clinical innovations. Fortunately, we Indians don’t have to go too far. Over the past few years, India has emerged as a global center for clinical research in the tourism industry. Urban communities like Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Vellore, which have become centers of medical care, will be compensated. All clinical centers have state-of-the-art multi and super-specialty clinics that boast the latest clinical innovations and arguably the best cardiologists, muscle specialists, ophthalmologists, disease specialists.

However, clinical travel can also present some difficulties for patients and their partners, especially in a multilingual country like India, where even basic correspondence can prove to be a major challenge. Besides, various things need to be taken care of — like a quiet good place, travel plan to see heart comfort near clinic or center, ensure smooth movement from air terminal/station, availability of medicines 24x7, get reasonable food. , hiring an escort etc. before

MangoHomz is a human reasoning clinical tourism innovative organization that aims to provide cheap hotels near Aiims Delhi with pleasant amenities to patients and their financial plans for patients and their partners. In addition, we also offer a number of important additional services, including transport, food, prescriptions, clinical equipment and waiting staff, to make the clinical stay of our visitors as pleasant and peaceful as expected. We have, and the sky’s the limit from there, so you can restore your well-being and that of your friends and family during your clinic visit.

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Tech Impact on Cardiovascular Ultrasound Market: Trends & Prospects

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) have now surpassed cancer as the leading cause of death worldwide, with nearly 17.9 million lives lost every year. They are a group of illnesses, such as coronary heart disease, rheumatic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, and others, affecting the heart and blood vessels.

Early detection is crucial to prevent these fatalities and seek timely care. Also called cardiac ultrasound or echocardiography, cardiovascular ultrasound is an imaging system that performs a detailed clinical diagnosis of the heart and detects any underlying issues in a relatively shorter duration.

According to Triton Market Research, the global cardiovascular ultrasound market is likely to develop with a CAGR of 6.12% in the forecast period from 2022 to 2028. The rising prevalence of CVDs has enhanced the demand for echocardiography devices, which is expected to drive the global market.

Increased Disease Prevalence Worldwide – Causative Factors

In recent years, the prevalence of hypertension, high blood glucose levels, elevated blood lipid levels, obesity, etc., has increased, which are risk factors for CVDs. Obesity rates have ascended in France, affecting 17% of the population.

Also, the substantial rise in the geriatric population, which is prone to several health conditions due to aging, contributes largely to the increased disease burden. In Brazil, people aged 50-79 are the most affected. With $61.78 million, the country accounted for the largest share in Latin America’s cardiovascular ultrasound market in 2021.

Realizing the importance of timely disease diagnosis, the Government of Australia launched the Cardiovascular Health Mission in 2019, which brings together experts in this field to make transformative improvements for patients’ cardiac health. The Australian market is expected to grow the fastest in the Asia-Pacific, with a 7.89% CAGR.

Technological Advancements widen Market Scope

The cardiovascular imaging domain has evolved due to the developments in 2D, 3D/4D, and Doppler technologies in ultrasound imaging. Another technology is point-of-care ultrasound, which uses a portable system that enables assessing patients without requiring them to be physically present in a cardiology department.

Advancements in technology offer numerous benefits, such as real-time imaging, ionizing-radiation-free imaging, enhanced diagnostic accuracy, improved patient safety, etc., which have revolutionized the field of echocardiography.

At 6.87% of CAGR, Doppler imaging to show the fastest growth in the Technology segment

At 6.37% of CAGR, Fetal Echocardiography to witness rapid growth in the Type segment

LISENDO 880LE is a premium 3D/4D diagnostic ultrasound system by FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation is a preferred choice by several cardiologists for pediatric and fetal heart patients.

Companies leverage Technology with Innovative Developments

A majority of the key market players are headquartered in Europe (GE Healthcare, Siemens Healthineers, Esaote S.p.A.) and the Asia-Pacific (Dawei Medical, Leltek Inc, Zoncare), signifying the large consumer base in these regions. The industry rivalry is significantly high due to manufacturers launching new products incorporated with innovative features.

In August 2020, Netherlands-based Philips Healthcare launched the Affiniti CVx echocardiography solution. Equipped with breakthrough interventional features, it aims to support cardiology departments in delivering improved patient care.

In June 2021, Japan-based Canon Medical Corp launched the Aplio i-series/Prism Edition, with faster processing and highly detailed imaging capabilities, along with several other enhanced applications.

Artificial Intelligence to Shape Future Opportunities

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technology into numerous cardiac ultrasound systems has emerged as the latest trend. AI in echocardiography is vital for disease diagnosis, standard section recognition, left ventricle functionality assessment, and automatic cardiac cavity segmentation.

Besides, introducing AI in cardiovascular ultrasound imaging has eased the whole process by eliminating the need for unnecessary testing and minimizing the costs incurred.

In the coming years, artificial intelligence’s role in echocardiography would become far more pertinent in developing smart algorithms for identifying risk factors and providing a more precise diagnosis. AI incorporation thus lays the foundation for the future of the cardiovascular ultrasound market.

FAQs:

Q 1) What are the revenue estimates for the global market?

The global cardiovascular ultrasound market which was valued $1450.86 million in 2021 and is likely to reach $2194.06 million by 2028.

Q 2) Which are the key end-users of cardiovascular ultrasound systems?

Ambulatory Care Centers, Hospitals, Diagnostic Centers, and Other End-users.