1. Please share your most interesting case with a patient ?
“My most interesting case concerned a patient experiencing potential cardiac symptoms. I had to perform a biopsy of an Intrapericardial Mass using both fluoroscopy and echo. I had the patient in the x-ray department using contrast which was injected into the pericardial space to outline the space, this gave me a better view of the mass. Echo was then used to take the biopsy. After the procedure had taken place, I realized that very few of these procedures had been performed.”
2. What is the best advice you were given during your time in medical school that has had a lasting impact on your practice?
“When I was attending medical school, I worked with a cardiologist. He had been working on a common case of atrial fibrillation, and he told me ‘there is no such a thing as a routine case’. This was the best advice given to me throughout medical school, I learnt to expect the unexpected, there is no such thing as ‘straightforward’ and you must not make assumptions.”
3. What are you currently working on that is helping to impact our local medical community and/or local patients?
“I am currently working on getting the Cardioversion Clinic up and running. Cardioversion is a medical procedure that restores a normal heart rhythm in people with certain types of arrhythmias. Cardioversion is usually done by sending electric shocks to your heart through electrodes placed on your chest.”
4. What is some advice or wisdom you would like to share with your medical staff peers, or any new physicians joining our community?
“The best advice I can give is to listen to those who have come before you. In other words, take advice from your senior colleagues because they have seen it before and have more experience. They have made mistakes that you could potentially avoid if you listen to their advice.”