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Doctorpanama.com is your tool to get information on how to get access to health services in Panama. We can assist you on the very best options about physicians, clinics and hospitals, primary care services and treatments.
As an internist I can provide medical attention to the adult population and solve most of their medical problems.

Today at Cardio & Diabetes Center we take care of hundreds o patients with diabetes and cardiac problems as well as other diseases on the medical field.

Wellness, is not just absence of disease

At Cardio & Diabetes we offer patients the cutting edge treatments that conventional medicine won`t or have not been trained to use.

We take advantage of the best of conventional and alternative medicine to take our patients to their highest level of health. Therapies like EECP that have been shown to improve the health of patients with heart disease; acupuncture and nutritional therapies given with the right indication have made a difference in the life of many of our patients.

Take a look at the video about EECP clicking on the picture at the left and see why so many people is choosing to have VASOTERAPIA EECP instead of invasive procedures for their heart problems.

Many doctors around the world are realizing that surgical approaches are not the best treatment option to treat patients with stable angina. Watch Dr. Michael Ozner, Medical Director of The Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Institute of South Florida, expose a better way to treat these patients:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUPAtDPG8D0

On february, 2009 Dr. Julian Whitaker recorded a video where he exposed the reality about bypass surgery and how non invasive therapies work better for the majority of patients with heart disease. You can see this video at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiUuC_sa_5Y

In the Next page read our article of the week.

Article of the Month

Coronary Artery Disease: Back to Basics

If you’ve ever had a heart attack or recurring angina, chances are you’ve either had or been recommended to have an angioplasty (or, as it’s now called, percutaneous coronary intervention—or PCI). This procedure involves inflating a balloon on the tip of a catheter inserted into a narrowed artery. Performed more than a million times a year, angioplasty is the standard of care for patients who have had a heart attack. It is also a popular therapy for many who are suffering with angina and for asymptomatic patients with blockages in the coronary arteries. But there’s a problem. Contrary to popular belief, angioplasty does not prevent heart attacks or save lives.

Studies Show Harm

Conventional wisdom dictates that angioplasty is best done within 12 hours after a heart attack, but at least a third of patients are not treated within that time frame. Nevertheless, “late” angioplasty is routinely performed on the assumption that it provides benefit. Well, it doesn’t. A large, multi-center study published in theNew England Journal of Medicine revealed that when angioplasty was done three to 28 days after a heart attack, it failed to reduce the occurrence of death, repeat heart attacks, or heart failure. Even worse, during four years of follow-up there were more heart attacks in the group that had angioplasty, compared to those treated conservatively with drugs. Another major drawback of angioplasty is restenosis, or closing up of the opened artery. To counter this, a tiny metal “scaffold” called a stent is usually placed in the artery to keep it propped open. But even stents can become blocked with scar tissue over time, so most are coated with drugs to reduce this risk. While this may sound like a good idea, three new studies show that it’s anything but. Although drug-coated stents may decrease restenosis, they interfere with the creation of collateral circulation that naturally bypasses blocked arteries, increase risk of potentially fatal blood clots—and more than double the risk of heart attack or death!