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Spring Survey 2012 Results

Increasing DVT Awareness

Program: Deep Vein Thrombosis: Knowing Your Risk for Blood Clots
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Andrew Schorr:

Right, you are echoing a lot of what Dr. Schafer said too. Dr. Schafer, what can we all do? I’m trying to do my part today so that there is more discussion about this because I’ve talked about breast cancer many times. I’ve talked about heart attacks, I‘ve talked about strokes, but following heart attacks and strokes then yet another big killer and certainly complications for people is DVT. What can we do to just get a dialog going more about that?

Dr. Schafer:

Well I think there has to be much more public awareness of the threat of this very common problem. We certainly have to do a lot more research, and research has to be supported to understand it better than we do today, and also to develop more effective and safer medications and treatments to prevent and to treat these disorders.

Ultimately it is an issue of public awareness, and I think there is definitely increasing public awareness today with several organizations. Le Keisha mentioned the Vascular Disease Foundation. There is the Coalition to Prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis, which Melanie Bloom is leading. She is the widow of David Bloom; the TV correspondent who died of a pulmonary embolism; and the Coalition to Prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis involves over 50 organizations that have come together. So there are different organizations that have raised the public awareness of this. We need to maintain this kind of public dialog.

Andrew Schorr:

I want to thank you. We’ll do it again, and I want to thank you for enlightening us on it. We have been visiting with Dr. Andrew Schafer who is Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. He's also Physician-in-Chief of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, and he's the immediate past President of the American Society of Hematology, and as a hematologist he specializes in all this, so Dr. Schafer thanks for shedding light on it. Let’s do it again some time, okay?

Dr. Schafer:

Thank you. It’s been a pleasure.

Andrew Schorr:

Thank you, and Le Keisha Ruffin, all our best to you and Caitlyn. After that cesarean section that opened up all those scary visits to the emergency room, but it sounds like things are on a better path now. All the best to you Le Keisha and your organization your involved in too, the Vascular Disease Foundation. Thanks for being with us and thanks for your work.

Le Keisha:

Thank you so much and thank you for having me. It was definitely my pleasure to be with you today.

Andrew Schorr:

Thank you. It was our pleasure too. Tomorrow we are going to switch gears and we are actually talking about cerebral palsy, and we are going to have back Dr. Bauman, Dr. Robert Baumann, from the University of Kentucky Medical Center who is a pediatric neurologist. He talked to us about epilepsy, and now we are going to talk about cerebral palsy. As always please remember to make a note to join us on Patient Power, and our website is www.PatientPower.info. Have a great day, and remember knowledge can be the best medicine of all. I’m Andrew Schorr in Seattle signing off.

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