The Heart of Innovation with Kym McNicholas

If you have symptoms A, B, and C, it is likely your physician will follow a decision-tree that leads them to choose X as treatment. Treatment algorithms exist across healthcare. They're detailed, step-by-step flow charts that outline the recommended treatment for patients with a specific disorder. These algorithms are a critical foundation for any physician. They're also critical for standardizing...

If you have symptoms A, B, and C, it is likely your physician will follow a decision-tree that leads them to choose X as treatment. Treatment algorithms exist across healthcare. They're detailed, step-by-step flow charts that outline the recommended treatment for patients with a specific disorder. These algorithms are a critical foundation for any physician. They're also critical for standardizing...

Dignity is an important component of providing care for dying patients and their families. Death with dignity is an end-of-life option, governed by state legislation in the United States, and other lawmakers around the world. It allows certain people with terminal illness to voluntarily and legally request and receive a prescription medication from their physician to hasten their death in a peacef...

Dignity is an important component of providing care for dying patients and their families. Death with dignity is an end-of-life option, governed by state legislation in the United States, and other lawmakers around the world. It allows certain people with terminal illness to voluntarily and legally request and receive a prescription medication from their physician to hasten their death in a peacef...

COVID-19 in its early days was classified as only a respiratory illness with varying degrees of severity. But as healthcare professionals learned more over time, they started also considering it a vascular disease because of blood clots that led to serious complications, including death, in patients suffering from COVID-19. In today's show hosts, Dr. John Phillips and Kym McNicholas are joined by...

COVID-19 in its early days was classified as only a respiratory illness with varying degrees of severity. But as healthcare professionals learned more over time, they started also considering it a vascular disease because of blood clots that led to serious complications, including death, in patients suffering from COVID-19. In today's show hosts, Dr. John Phillips and Kym McNicholas are joined by...

How much easier would it be if we had instant access to our medical records, especially imaging, so we could make real-time decisions on our care and even get a second opinion in a timely manner? The reality is that although HIPAA mandates our right for access to our medical records, get copies of them, and request chances be made to them, policies differ depending on facility which hinder a patie...

How much easier would it be if we had instant access to our medical records, especially imaging, so we could make real-time decisions on our care and even get a second opinion in a timely manner? The reality is that although HIPAA mandates our right for access to our medical records, get copies of them, and request chances be made to them, policies differ depending on facility which hinder a patie...

Hosts Interventional Cardiologist Dr. John Phillips and Emmy Award-winning journalist Kym McNicholas are talking about innovation around ALS. Most are familiar with ALS now more than ever because o the famous internet ice bucket challenge involving the pouring of a bucket of ice water over a person's head, either by another person or self-administered, to promote awareness of Amyotrophic lateral s...

Hosts Interventional Cardiologist Dr. John Phillips and Emmy Award-winning journalist Kym McNicholas are talking about innovation around ALS. Most are familiar with ALS now more than ever because o the famous internet ice bucket challenge involving the pouring of a bucket of ice water over a person's head, either by another person or self-administered, to promote awareness of Amyotrophic lateral s...

Description: Having a chronic illness and/or a surgical procedure can be scary. In this episode of the Heart of Innovation, we are talking about pre and post surgery stress and anxiety, especially tomophobia, 'the fear of surgery'. In the hospital, people are given medicine to help them sleep or sedatives to put them at ease. At home, it's not always as easy. Either way, many times the hurry up an...

Having a chronic illness and/or a surgical procedure can be scary. In this episode of the Heart of Innovation, we are talking about pre and post surgery stress and anxiety, especially tomophobia, 'the fear of surgery'. In the hospital, people are given medicine to help them sleep or sedatives to put them at ease. At home, it's not always as easy. Either way, many times the hurry up and wait game f...

Description: Douglas is on deck for open heart surgery and decided to join the show just minutes before air time to inspire others through sharing his courageous journey. He heard that Dr. Mehrzad Zarghouni, Interventional Radiologist with Houston Vein & Vascular, was going to be on the show as guest co-host since Dr. Phillips was on call and taking care of an urgent heart patient at Ohio Health....

Douglas is on deck for open heart surgery and decided to join the show just minutes before air time to inspire others by sharing his courageous journey. He heard that Dr. Mehrzad Zarghouni, Interventional Radiologist with Houston Vein & Vascular, was going to be on the show as co-host since Dr. Phillips was on call and taking care of an urgent heart patient at Ohio Health, and he popped on jus...

Description: You don’t want to miss this compelling episode of The Heart of Innovation, not only because it has the potential to save life and limb through a deep dive into how walking can help create a ‘natural bypass,’ but because a patient shares his story of how a second opinion changed his life. In segment three, Duke and his vascular specialist Dr. Yazan Khatib at First Coast Cardiovascular...

When your physician says "Walking is the best medicine" for treating Peripheral Artery Disease (P.A.D.), they're right. P.A.D. is defined by a narrowing of the arteries, mainly in the legs, due to plaque build-up. When flow is restricted, muscles, organs, and tissue are starved of critical nutrients, including oxygen. This may cause symptoms, such as leg pain and cramping when walking (claudicatio...

Description: Chronic physical illness can lead to depression and anxiety, resulting in a mental health crisis which can further jeopardize a patient's health. The Heart of Innovation hosts Kym McNicholas and Dr. John Phillips are joined by The Way To My Heart's Nurse Practitioner Kay Smith, legendary business and financial reporter Bambi Francisco (Founder and CEO of Vator. TV), and Revitalist ( M...

Chronic physical illness can lead to depression and anxiety, resulting in a mental health crisis which can further jeopardize a patient's health. Kym McNicholas and Dr. John Phillips are joined by The Way To My Heart's Nurse Practitioner Kay Smith, legendary business and financial reporter Bambi Francisco (Founder and CEO of Vator.tv), and Revitalist CEO Kathryn Walker to talk about the problem an...

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Since this is the first show during Peripheral Artery Disease Awareness (P.A.D.) Month, which brings to the forefront a debilitating circulatory disorder that impacts one in five people over age 60, hosts Kym McNicholas and Dr. John Phillips, along with Nurse Practitioner Kay Smith, are talking to Dr. Jay Matthews. Dr. Matthews is an Interventional Cardiologist in Bradenton, Florida, whom several...

Description: Type 2 diabetes and obesity are epidemics that can lead to amputation due to a common complication known as peripheral artery disease (P.A.D.), which is plaque build-up in mainly the leg arteries that restricts blood flow. But the right diet can help mitigate risk for limb loss. Hosts Kym McNicholas and Interventional Cardiologist Dr. John Phillips are joined by Nurse Practitioner Kay...

Type 2 diabetes and obesity are epidemics that can lead to amputation due to a common complication known as peripheral artery disease (P.A.D.), which is plaque build-up in mainly the leg arteries that restricts blood flow. But the right diet can help mitigate the risk of limb loss. Hosts Kym McNicholas and Dr. John Phillips are joined by Nurse Practitioner Kay Smith to chat with special guest Dr....

Description: Patients are on the frontlines when it comes to uncovering gaps in our healthcare system. That's why this episode features patients who have Peripheral Artery Disease, restricted blood flow in mainly the leg arteries due to plaque build-up, and live in low-socioeconomic areas, talking about how they are treated and what might help improve care. Physicians who care for these patients a...

Patients are on the frontlines when it comes to uncovering gaps in our healthcare system. That's why this show will feature what they have to say about how patients in the most vulnerable communities who have Peripheral Artery Disease (P.A.D.), plaque build-up in mainly the leg arteries that restricts blood flow to the lower extremities, are treated. Live at The Way To My Heart's first in-person c...

Description: What patients say and what doctors hear is often very different. That's often the case with what doctors say and patients hear as well. But sometimes those conversations are well understood by both the patient and the physician, and may leave either one or both, speechless. During this episode, patients share stories about conversations with their doctor that have left them speechless...