What is the difference between a cardiologist, cardiovascular surgeon, and cardiotheracic surgeon?
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The cardiologist is the non-surgical specialist who treats the heart.  The cardiovascular surgeon operates on the heart and related blood vessels, and the cardiothoracic surgeon operates on the heart and lungs, and related vessels.  Oftentimes nowadays, the terms cardiovascular surgeon and cardiothoracic surgeon are used interchangeably.
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There are three main types of oncologists:\na) Oncological surgeon/surgical oncologist.  Specializes in surgical procedures that are cancer related.\nb) Radiation Oncologist.  Specializes in using radiation to treat cancer.\nc) Medical oncologist.  Specializes in using chemo to treat cancer.
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There are hundreds of them. Some common ones:\n-Appendectomy\n-Hysterectomy\n-Cesarean Section\n-Gastric Bypass\n-Organ Transplants [heart, liver, kidney]\n-Cardiac Surgery\n-Gallbladder Removal\n-Prostatectomy\n-Hip or Knee Implant\n-Brain Surgery
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiovascular
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A doctor who works with Blood is a Hemotologist.\n\nA doctor who works with Infectious Diseases (which included viruses) is an Epidemiologist.\n\nCuring them?  Medicine is about treatment, where very few "cures" are found.  It is not smart business to "cure" a disease.  Do the math, which would make more money:\n\nCuring AIDS with one pill or developing drugs that must be taken a lifetime to slow AIDS progress.  Which brings in more revenue for your company?
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If you mean vascular, I would check your Benefits book (or health insurance website) for available doctors.  You may need to see your regular doctor for a referal.  If you know what vascular area you need help with - cardo, pulmanary, etc you will be able to find your own doctor just by doing a search online.
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Wow how paranoid are you?  You are thinking that your doctors would actually refer you, and perform an open heart surgery without it being indicated?  Do you think it is useful to be so distrustful of your health care providers?  I know doctors move quickly and don't take time to explain things.  Believe me, when you already are working very long days and nights and not keeping up, taking more time with each patient is difficult to do.  Nonetheless, doctors got into the business because they are there to help.  Ask questions if you don't understand.  Do your own research and inform yourself about some of the basic workings of your own physiology.  Its one thing to answer questions but sometimes as a health professional, you need to lay a whole ground work with a patient before your answer would make any sense to them.  This is very time consuming.  So learn about yourself and how your heart works if you don't already know.\nTry this link for reliable information\nhttp://www.mayoclinic.com/health/heart-disease/HB99999\n\nNow to answer your question about the "silent heart attack."  We do see this with patients frequently.  There are EKG changes that are consistent with certain parts of the cardiac muscle no longer working.  Other tests (e.g. echocardiograms, myograms)  can give similar results.  My personal feeling about this is that this is either chronically occluded small vessel disease or a congenital defect rather than a full blown event like we typically think of with a heart attack.  This makes the most sense in that over time small vessels become more and more blocked, progressively starving the heart muscle of oxygenated blood.  Eventually an area of the heart dies off.  It happens so slowly that there never is pain, shortness of breath, sweating, etc.  When the area of heart muscle dies, there are changes in monitoring devices like EKG's giving rise to the diagnosis of a "silent heart attack."  Whatever the source it means that there is a part of your heart that no longer contracts and pumps blood like it should.  At minimum this predisposes you for congestive heart failure...which has a high incidence of mortality or morbidity.  If I were you, I would listen to the medical people.  Your life and quality of life will depend on it.\n\nGood luck.
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You make them both sound very promising.But both jobs have pros and cons....agreed,a doctor occupation makes u feel good about urself that you have helped someone get better.\nArchitect is less about other people,its about wat we like to do.More or less,both jobs will need dedication,but the doctor seems to have an edge over itself as you  can get resruited by any major hospitals but architects??never hear alot of them happening.So we have to make a name for ourselves.\nNone of them is easy,they both require dediaction and hard work.Decide properly and NEVER look back...... \n\n\nby the way,i hope i can answer ur questions now.
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There's a saying: "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."  Maybe the first doctor didn't have experience with that variety of splint.  I'm not saying that some surgeons do not jump at every opportunity to operate, and that some do see patients as a revenue source.  I just want to point out that some have different approaches based on experience and training.
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if you have chest pain (angina), or have had previous heart bypass surgery then they may want to do cardiac catheterization to see if there are any blocked arteries. They can also see how the heart valves function, including mechanical valves, but often a cardiac ultrasound (Echocardiogram) is done first, as well as stress test (on a treadmill).
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A cardiac physiologist.
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find a technical school that offers a degree in this field\na medical assistant helps a doctor in the office by taking blood pressures ,etc\n a physicians assistant is a registered nurse who has special training and degree allowing her/him to perform some of the treatments and physical assessments a doctor can but not all ----and works under the direct supervision of a medical doctor
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Punjab Institute of Cardiology, Lahore, Pakistan..where .150 operations are conducted. Mortality rate is less than 1%, and very good ICU care is there.\nI myself has undergone CABG (Bypass) Surgery there on 2nd October, 2006, and total 8 operation were conducted on taht day by 4 teams of Doctors. All were fine normal and discharged from the hospital within 6-10 days.\nOperation charges are also nominal, ranging from Rs. 40000 (US $700) for poor patients to Rs 250000 (US$4000) from wealthy patients. For really desrving patients all costs were borne by teh state.
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It is a heart surgeon. They make a little over half a million dollars each year. They operate only on the heart.
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A good oncologist will work with you to not only treat the specific cancer but also to identify and treat the underlying conditions that promote cancer(carcinogenesis).\n\nUse atherosclerosis that causes heart attacks as an analogy.  Heart attacks result from atherosclerosis which is the result of the process called atherogenesis.  After the heart attack, your heart doctor will work with you to identify and treat the underlying 'risk factors' that contribute to atherogenesis which leads to atherosclerosis which leads to heart attacks (and strokes and other nasty stuff).\n\nA good oncologist will work with you to identify your risk factors for carcinogenesis and help treat the underlying causes as well as the specific cancer.\n\nGood luck!
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Look at the big cardiac hospitals, depending on location.  I'm in Tennessee, good places would be Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville or University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).  Most large cities are a good source...New York, Chicago, L.A., Dallas just to name a few.  Sorry I can't be more help, giving you what I know.
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I'm a med student in New Jersey.  As far as education...it takes 4 years of college and 4 years of med school, then for cardiac surgery, you have to do a surgical residency which is about 5-7 years and then you have to a cardiology fellowship which is another 2-4 years.  As far as the type of person it takes...you have to be very dedicated because it takes a long time and there is a lot of information thrown at you in a short period of time.  I believe that the school I go to is an excellent school (despite the controversy going on now) but I hear that NYU has a good school and that Johns Hopkins is really good school.  Also Albert Einstein College of Medicine but any one is probably suffice if you work hard enough at your studies.  Also you don't have to major in a science in college to get in to med school..you just have to have the prerequisites.  Good luck!