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Honestly Austin - Episode 3: Dr. Thomas Doyle

hey guys welcome back today we have dr thomas doyle he is a cardiologist at vanderbilt university and today we talked about heart issues specifically with teens and more specifically we talked about what happens during the cardiac arrest mostly during sporting events and what you should do in those situations and also how covet affects the heart and if it has any long-term conditions so watch to find out hey doctor how are you i'm good austin how are you today i'm good well thank you for coming out on your busy schedule um we thought it'd be interesting to have someone talk about heart issues and especially now with the kobe 19 pandemic and how it affects the heart so you're ready to start a great topic so yeah fire away all right so first off can we start about talking about your early life where do you grow up and where do you went to college and how do you decide to be a physician and beyond that sub-specialize in cardiology sure that's uh i grew up in philadelphia outside philadelphia and uh went to college first year at penn state and then after that went to the university of arizona where's the wildcats enjoyed basketball and football there and then from there got into medical school at the university of arizona spent four years more there did my pediatric training at the university of maryland in baltimore and then did my sub-specialty training in pediatric cardiology at yale university in new haven connecticut after that came down to vanderbilt here where i've been now for the past 28 years or so so i've been able to see a lot of different parts of the country um in terms of how i pick cardiology and medicine i actually grew up wanting to be a herpetologist or somebody who chased snakes and critters and creeks i love catching snakes and turtles and frogs and uh my father convinced me that there was no career in that uh although in hindsight i could have been you know the next uh guy on tv chasing the animals around but um when i looked at my passions things that i liked i i i liked helping people i really enjoyed science uh and when you put those two together it was kind of a natural tendency to lean towards some aspect of medicine and picked medical school uh was lucky enough to get in and then once in um i would walk down the halls of the hospital and say you know who did i want to take care of did i want to take care of granddad and grandmom did i want to take care of mom and dad or did i want to take care of the children and i just loved the children i loved their innocence i loved their strength and their courage and and got drawn to that so pick pediatrics and then once i was in pediatrics the things that i really enjoyed were physiology and and physiology and and how things work i enjoyed physical exam and listening to people and being able to try and figure out what they have from just listening to them i also liked long-term relationships so i'd like to be able to see somebody but watch them grow and develop and also like the excitement of being able to do something kind of acutely to make somebody better and when i put all those two together and and the people who inspired me i ended up picking pediatric cardiology and that's where i am today that's pretty cool so about your everyday office um i'm sorry my my microphone went off here you're good i can still hear you there you go i'm sorry what did you ask so in your everyday office what are like the most common issues that you'll see within teens sure so we see a lot of first of all we see all ages so we'll see babies some my partners see children even before they're born inside the mother uh up up really up towards adult level but most common in your age group the thing i'll see is uh something called a murmur murmurs are sounds generated by the heart everybody thinks about love dub lub dub but the heart will also often generate other sounds and these are most commonly picked up on a for sports physical so you're going to play soccer tennis or whatever and and you go to get screened and they say oh by the way we hear a murmur did anybody ever hear a murmur and they said oh nobody's ever mentioned that and all of a sudden there's a lot of anxiety because people hear the term murmur and they start thinking i might have a hole in my heart or something wrong with my heart the fact of the matter is the heart normally often generates other noises and we call a lot of those murmurs and most of those are are innocent or functional in nature and represent nothing wrong with the heart so if somebody's diagnosed with a murmur or somebody's told they have a murmur that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with their heart just means it's making an extra sound and we get to meet the people and then try and decide if it's just a normal finding or if it is something else we need to know about other things we get to see we'll see a lot of people who have chest pain everybody gets chest pain at some point and it's always worrisome because it's always right over your heart so everybody's always gets concerned rightfully so when they have chest pain and the good news is that in young adults or teenagers the chances of chest pain being related to your heart is really really small and when we meet those people we ask a lot of questions because the questions we ask are more important than actually the studies we do to help us decide if we're worried or not chest pain that occurs when you're you're sitting playing your video games or eating dinner or watching tv we don't worry about those chest pain that gets my attention is the chest pain that occurs every time you go out and run i go run i start running hard i get this dull aching chest pain i have to stop that's the kind of pain that gets a cardiologist's attention uh unfortunately that's very rare most times it's other kinds of chest pain

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