Luke's Drawing

A Change of Heart

    I am Dr. Luke from the cardiology department. Yesterday, a peculiar thing happened. A patient came in and told me that he kept feeling different. He told me this started last week, when he was feeling tired and then he was restless just like he just woke up that morning. Then I noticed he had a severe case of a change of heart.
    A change of heart is when the ventricles and the atriums get moved around causing the blood to flow backwards, making the brain to change your mind on something. Symptoms are sometimes planning to go shopping but the taking a bath instead.
    When I was in my  fourth year of my residence I learned that a change of heart can be treated two ways. The first treatment is to have a person follow the patient around to make sure that the patient does not change his/her mind. This helps the patient to gradually get better. The second treatment is to have a cardio transplant to stop the backward blood flow.
    For this patient we chose surgery to fix it. After the surgery, he was back to normal. He thanked our team of experienced doctors for helping him, then he left.

by Luke

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