Radiologists: Less adrenalin, heart attacks and cancer?

[hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net]

Dear Jerry

I do not know of scientific data on radiologists being less type "A". Type "A"s

have been shown to have more heart attacks and cancer risks like smoking.



I'm sort of a disciple of Meyer Friedman, coauthor of Type A Behavior and Your

Heart. Friedman consulted in my office on a dozen heart patients yearly, 40 - 45

years ago. His and Ray Rosenman's Western Collaborative Study of 5,000 Lockheed

employees found 5x the ECG changes, myocardial infarct and heart death rates at

5 & 10 years, among the 33% labeled "A" (fight or flight indicators).



Adrenalin is the main cause of our epidemic of heart attacks. It shortens

clotting time (thrombosis), stimulates arrhythmia (400,000 deaths in USA yearly)

and makes coronary spasm (voodoo or cocaine effect).



 I expect radiation treatment could be impressive in gangrene (75 cGy,

repeatedly), as shown at our DDP meeting by Jerry Cuttler. Radiation treatment

helped acute shoulder bursitis in 1940s.  My extensive experience injecting

trigger points in the sacroiliac with cortisone suggests use of radiotherapy

there also.



Howard Long



PS  HMO physicians don't seem to enjoy their work or make friends with

patients.. Haven't you noticed?



Jerry Cohen wrote:



> >

> > "I would question that the radiologist study is as impressive as the NSWS

> because

> > of differences between radiologists and other physicians. When I checked

> with my

> > friend Bob Cihak, Past President of our Association of American Physicians

> and

> > Surgeons (more scientific than political like AMA) and a radiologist, he

> said,

> > "Yes, I for one chose radiology to avoid the 80 hour work weeks of other

> > residencies and specialties."

> > Radiologists are less type ":A", adrenergic, subject to heart attacks.

> Using

> > other physicians as controls is as unsatisfactory as Field using c35%

> smokers as

> > controls for lung cancer cases with c95% smokers."

>

> Howard,

>     OK, but I wonder by what mechanism are radiologists less prone toward

> cancer than other physicians, and why is this the case only after ~1925. Do

> HMO physicians who generally work fewer hours under perhaps less stressful

> conditions also experience lower cancer rates? Another question: Are

> "adregeneric" humans more likely to experience heart attacks, or are heart

> attack victims more likely to be classified as adregeneric? Is Bob Cihak's

> comment an offhand opinion, or are there controlled studies to support it?

>

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