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While I really don't know much about Dr. Andrew Chung but I do know that I
have followed his board postings intermittantly for some time. It seems to me
that the hostility I have seen lately has been totally out of proportion. How
many of you people with so much to say have gone through college, medicial
school, internship and fellowship? How many of you have passed the medical
boards and all the exams that are required to become a cardiolologist. Dr.
Andrew Chung may have chosen for himself a life style that you question..
Maybe it was chosen as a result of life circumstances maybe it was not. I tend
to believe it was a combination of things. Medicine today often is a political
thing. It is who you know, not always what you know and some people can deal
with that better than others. There are people in this world that were born to
smooze their way through anything and there are those that will not bow to if
there is little to bow to. How many of you have never had a postion in which
politics played a part on survival more than skill? How many out there have
never had a negative work experience whether your fault or not your fault?
You bashers out there, What is the saying "He who lives in a glass house should
never through stones." Each of us lives with our own little failures and short
comings.Each of us goes on in the way they can handle. I am not a doctor. I
have attempted to answer questions on arrhythmias and pacemakers. I do not for
one moment consider myself on the level of Dr. Chung. I am a technician with 26
years of experience in arrhythmia interpretation, pacemakers, stress tests,
holter monitors and event monitors. I have worked in the hospital setting. I
have worked in the lab setting. For 26 years I have specialized in just this
one area, the cardiac electrical system. I know from a technical standpoint
more than most. However, never ever do I believe I have the vast knowledge
that Dr. Chung has in relations to the patient and the sum of its parts. He
knows every aspect of the cardiovascular system. All the plumbing as well, Ha
HA. The reponse of that system to circumstances, internal, external, and
changes from other caused by other physiological abnormalites. He knows the
whole body and specializes in the heart and cardiovascular system. If he passed
the boards, schools and programs then he has earned his degree and initials
M.D. and you nasty bashers have no right or reason to belittle him. The fact
stands, he holds the honers and you need to either respect those honors or look
for a new board because there are a lot of sincere people out there that stop
coming to the board because of all that has been posted. Obviously a number of
them do not have a cardiologist that gives them the time that it takes to gain
a complete understanding of problems. Some of them abrupt, some of them above
it all, some of them not capable of explaining in laymans terms. Some just
moving to the next patient fast because of the reimbursment problems and HMO's.
No matter what the reason some of these people need a pat on the back and a
little explanation. I try to do this for my patients and on this board as
well. So does Dr. Chung. How many MDs are on this only cardiology user group
doing the same. None, either they are busy counting their money or out on the
golf course. The other option is that they are burnt out and have enough to
do 23 1/2 hours a day and dont want to spend the last half doing it. I
appreciate that too. That is why we have to make room for the Dr Chungs of the
world. Not attack him for his choices and his promotions. We need him too. We
are not all alike. We are not all cut from the same mold. We have to respect
others for their personal lifestyles without passing judgement.
I hope for those I have responded to this past few months that I have been
helpful in my explanations. I hope that I will have the chance to answer
still more questions in my field of expertise. Good night, friends, foes and
Dr. Chung.
have followed his board postings intermittantly for some time. It seems to me
that the hostility I have seen lately has been totally out of proportion. How
many of you people with so much to say have gone through college, medicial
school, internship and fellowship? How many of you have passed the medical
boards and all the exams that are required to become a cardiolologist. Dr.
Andrew Chung may have chosen for himself a life style that you question..
Maybe it was chosen as a result of life circumstances maybe it was not. I tend
to believe it was a combination of things. Medicine today often is a political
thing. It is who you know, not always what you know and some people can deal
with that better than others. There are people in this world that were born to
smooze their way through anything and there are those that will not bow to if
there is little to bow to. How many of you have never had a postion in which
politics played a part on survival more than skill? How many out there have
never had a negative work experience whether your fault or not your fault?
You bashers out there, What is the saying "He who lives in a glass house should
never through stones." Each of us lives with our own little failures and short
comings.Each of us goes on in the way they can handle. I am not a doctor. I
have attempted to answer questions on arrhythmias and pacemakers. I do not for
one moment consider myself on the level of Dr. Chung. I am a technician with 26
years of experience in arrhythmia interpretation, pacemakers, stress tests,
holter monitors and event monitors. I have worked in the hospital setting. I
have worked in the lab setting. For 26 years I have specialized in just this
one area, the cardiac electrical system. I know from a technical standpoint
more than most. However, never ever do I believe I have the vast knowledge
that Dr. Chung has in relations to the patient and the sum of its parts. He
knows every aspect of the cardiovascular system. All the plumbing as well, Ha
HA. The reponse of that system to circumstances, internal, external, and
changes from other caused by other physiological abnormalites. He knows the
whole body and specializes in the heart and cardiovascular system. If he passed
the boards, schools and programs then he has earned his degree and initials
M.D. and you nasty bashers have no right or reason to belittle him. The fact
stands, he holds the honers and you need to either respect those honors or look
for a new board because there are a lot of sincere people out there that stop
coming to the board because of all that has been posted. Obviously a number of
them do not have a cardiologist that gives them the time that it takes to gain
a complete understanding of problems. Some of them abrupt, some of them above
it all, some of them not capable of explaining in laymans terms. Some just
moving to the next patient fast because of the reimbursment problems and HMO's.
No matter what the reason some of these people need a pat on the back and a
little explanation. I try to do this for my patients and on this board as
well. So does Dr. Chung. How many MDs are on this only cardiology user group
doing the same. None, either they are busy counting their money or out on the
golf course. The other option is that they are burnt out and have enough to
do 23 1/2 hours a day and dont want to spend the last half doing it. I
appreciate that too. That is why we have to make room for the Dr Chungs of the
world. Not attack him for his choices and his promotions. We need him too. We
are not all alike. We are not all cut from the same mold. We have to respect
others for their personal lifestyles without passing judgement.
I hope for those I have responded to this past few months that I have been
helpful in my explanations. I hope that I will have the chance to answer
still more questions in my field of expertise. Good night, friends, foes and
Dr. Chung.