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Outpatient vascular care : Good, bad or ugly?

Dr. Anish Koka

Jeffery Dormu was a double board certified vascular surgeon who was paid $13 million dollars by Medicare alone between 2013 and 2017. A lower extremity arterial ultrasound revealed elevated velocities in the right proximal superficial femoral artery. These payments made him one of the highest paid vascular surgeons in the country.

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A young peripartum woman with Chest Pain

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection Dissection of a coronary artery may occur in the context of atherosclerosis, or be iatrogennic during angiography or angioplasty. Many of these issues were described in a prior post by Dr. Angie Lobo ( @aloboMD ) (For open-access reviews of this literature, see Saw 2016 , Saw 2017 , or Hayes 2018.)