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When you get to the emergency room, don't be afraid to say you may be having a heart attack, because faster access to lifesaving treatments--clot-busting drugs, emergency angioplasty, beta-blockers--increases your chances of survival. We've all learned a lot about the Electoral College in this presidential election, but the most important lesson may be the one Dick Cheney taught us about paying attention to even the smallest chest pains...
...widely reported case last week, an apparently healthy British woman in her late 20s took a 20-hr. flight from Australia to London and collapsed at Heathrow Airport 10 minutes after arrival. She died within hours. An autopsy showed that she had developed deep venous thrombosis--a blood clot in her leg--that lodged in one of her lungs...
...years, doctors have warned passengers who travel long distances not to stay seated for the entire flight. A known risk factor for blood clots in the leg is remaining sedentary for long periods of time--three hours or more. One of the easiest ways to counteract this risk on an airplane is to get up occasionally for a couple of minutes and walk the length of the plane. If the flight attendants are in the middle of service, just stand next to your seat and do a series of toe raises--lift yourself up on your toes for a couple...
Another precaution is to drink adequate amounts of nonalcoholic fluids before and during the flight. Dehydration can affect certain factors in the blood, making it thicker and more likely to clot. Travelers should be alert for leg pain, swelling and feelings of heaviness. When in doubt, it never hurts to get up and stretch. But only after the captain has turned off the FASTEN SEAT BELTS SIGN...
...sense, of course, our treatment of Rocker is nothing unique. For years, we've watched the always predictable moralizing of talk show audiences, and we've reveled in the barked reprimands of that cadre of midday judges who clot the television airwaves. We like watching other people get criticized, and we love the chance to do it ourselves. Indeed, our treatment of Rocker is only an extension of all this. And yet, of course, there must be a line...