Heartfelt with Dr Melissa Walton-Shirley

Organ Transplantation: Unvaccinated Need Not Apply Outrage over the denial of transplant organs to the unvaccinated is an opportunity to educate people on the complexities of organ allocation, writes Melissa Walton-Shirley, channeling her inner Ted Lasso.
Experts And Viewpoints, February 10, 2022
Artificial Hearts: One Size Does Not Fit All The story of the first woman to receive an Aeson, an investigational, implantable artificial heart, prompted this cardiologist to reflect on the low use of bridging devices and heart transplants in women.
Experts And Viewpoints, November 22, 2021
USPSTF Statement on Aspirin: Poor Messaging at Best Could the messaging around the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's draft aspirin recommendations put some patients who likely benefit at risk?
Experts And Viewpoints, October 19, 2021
Physicians Need to Unionize Now Complaining about the loss of physician autonomy isn't going to change anything. We need to unionize, argues this doctor.
Experts And Viewpoints, August 04, 2021
Losing Both Parents During COVID: A Physician's 'Unwitnessed Grief' Melissa Walton-Shirley quit full-time practice to help care for her elderly parents. That they would both die during a pandemic when close comfort and mourning rituals were not allowed magnified her loss.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 19, 2021
Fired for Good Judgment a Sign of Physicians' Lost Respect The firing of a physician who made use of soon-to-expire COVID vaccine doses rather than flush them epitomizes the loss of physician autonomy and respect, warns Melissa Walton-Shirley.
Experts And Viewpoints, February 23, 2021
AHA 2020 The Duty to Inform: Be Galileo on COVID-19 Melissa Walton-Shirley sees parallels between the 16th-century mathematician and the work of modern-day healthcare workers to rebut COVID denialism.
Experts And Viewpoints, December 03, 2020
An Avatar Is Not a Human: Virtual Meetings Have Their Limitations Having virtually attended three cardiology conferences, Melissa Walton-Shirley, MD, found the science on par with their live equivalents, but even an avatar is no substitute for human interaction.
Experts And Viewpoints, November 02, 2020
Does Less Medical Care Mean Better Care? A fellow cardiologist comes to the defense of New York Times contributor Sandeep Jauhar, who was castigated on social media for suggesting that most people were fine with fewer doctor visits.
Experts And Viewpoints, July 16, 2020
Traveling in the Shadow of a Pandemic Despite a feeling that this could be bad, Melissa Walton-Shirley took a long-planned trip to Israel, hoping to be stay ahead of the coronavirus spread -- a decision she now realizes was an unnecessary gamble.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 06, 2020
Smalltown Practice: Even a Bathroom Stall Is No Escape Melissa Walton-Shirley recalls the joys and stresses of 24 years in smalltown private practice, where even an encounter in a public bathroom can turn into an office visit.
Experts And Viewpoints, March 16, 2020
Cardiologist by Day, Rock Singer at Night: Music Is My Polypill A dying request from a cantankerous patient reignites Melissa Walton-Shirley’s love of singing after a 15-year hiatus.
Experts And Viewpoints, December 21, 2019
ESC 2019 Millennial Mentoring: Is it Time to Soften Our Rough Edges? Melissa Walton-Shirley attended a talk on workplace challenges from a millennial physician, which made her rethink her assessment of a former intern as 'smart but lazy.'
Experts And Viewpoints, October 22, 2019
ESC 2019 Terrorism and Mass Casualty: All Specialties Should Prepare When did you last tie a tourniquet? Melissa Walton-Shirley learns that in the event of a mass casualty attack, anyone may be called upon to be a first responder.
Experts And Viewpoints, September 26, 2019
ESC 2019 Cardiologists Should Prescribe SGLT2 Inhibitors Is it fair to expect cardiologists to now prescribe the new diabetes drugs? Presentations at the European Society of Cardiology Congress prove persuasive to Melissa Walton-Shirley, MD.
Experts And Viewpoints, September 05, 2019
Rediscovering the Joy of Practice via a Rocky Mountain Reboot A burned-out physician who quit fulltime practice because of family responsibilities finds that locum tenens work in the Northwest was just the medicine she needed.
Experts And Viewpoints, August 14, 2019
Are Exorbitant Corporate Salaries in Healthcare Unethical? Overworked clinicians struggle to provide quality care in a cash-strapped US healthcare system as CEOs and insurance companies rake in the cash. Melissa Walton-Shirley calls for a revolt.
Experts And Viewpoints, July 05, 2019
No One Here Gets Out Alive: DNR Code Status Do healthcare professionals take enough time to communicate with patients about their do-not-resuscitate (DNR) wishes? Some recent experiences have raised concerns for Melissa Walton-Shirley, MD.
Experts And Viewpoints, May 22, 2019
Philip Morris v Uruguay: A Story That Deserves Retelling A tiny nation takes on big tobacco. Melissa Walton-Shirley, MD, sees lessons for the US in this tale of two presidents, one an oncologist, who did not back down in pushing for libre de humo de tabaco.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 18, 2019
ACC 2019 What's New and Useful in Hypertension From ACC.19 Melissa Walton-Shirley's takeaways on hypertension management, a topic close to her heart, from the latest studies and expert presentations at the 2019 American College of Cardiology Scientific Session.
Experts And Viewpoints, March 28, 2019

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