Haitian Hearts Mid-Year Report--2014

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Haitian Hearts Mid-Year Report--2014

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As of today (August 3, 2014) we have had 12 Haitian patients accepted or operated. All have been heart surgeries. Mitchena (above) is on the list for heart surgery later this year. (Mitchena...

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Livesay [Haiti] Weblog: Our eyes are open, but do we see?

Livesay [Haiti] Weblog: Our eyes are open, but do we see?: I learned a while back that kids that grow up abroad can grow up with an entirely different experience than their parents.  Th...

Oniste

John A Carroll shared Oniste Honoré Guay's album: Oniste.

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It's been one year now since Oniste Honoré Guay was operated in Colorado.

Oniste Honoré Guay added 10 new photos to the album Oniste — at Vernet, Les Cayes, Haiti.

😊😊😊😊😊Thank you God

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Keith to Step Down at OSF

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OSF Saint Francis CEO Keith Steffen plans to step down after 17 years in the position.

OSF Saint Francis CEO Keith Steffen plans to step down

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PEORIA — The CEO of OSF Saint Francis Medical Center plans to retire at the end of the year, capping a 34-year career with the...

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  John A Carroll We have to remember that many of Keith’s bad decisions over the past 17 years were forced on him by OSF Corporate. Corporate needed someone to take the heat and they paid Keith handsomely for his services. 
  
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  John A Carroll Keith told me in his office at OSF that "Fear is a good thing among employees." Incredible but true. 
  
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OSF-SFMC Needs to Read This Article

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“Intimidation or retaliation against whistle-blowers — or any employee who raises a hand to identify a legitimate problem, make a suggestion, or report what may be a violation of law, policy, or our core values — is absolutely unacceptable,” Mr. Gibson said. Administrators who retaliate against whistle-blowers, he added, would be disciplined.

Top Investigator Has Blistering Criticism for V.A. Response to Whistle-Blowers

The head of an independent agency within the executive branch criticized the...

THE NEW YORK TIMES|BY RICHARD A. OPPEL JR.

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  John A Carroll OSF-SFMC in Peoria needs to read this article. Their employees need protection.

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Dispatches from Haiti

Drouillard (Photo by John Carroll)

Dear Reader(s),

Over the last several years I have been posting on the Peoria Journal Star blog site at Dispatches from Haiti. 

I usually don't post these articles to this site.

Thanks for reading.

John
www.haitianhearts.org

Chikungunya Disease in Haiti

View From Princess's Front Door

Photo by John Carroll--Delmas, Port-au-Prince (April 13, 2014)

Delivery Deficit

I have a bad feeling about Princess. I don’t think she will get heart surgery and I don’t think she will make it. And I really hope I am wrong.  

With Princess we don’t have a medical diagnostic dilemma. We have a delivery dilemma.

The technology that exists to diagnose Princess is magical. Not too many years ago who would have thought bouncing sound waves off a 7.5 pound baby's heart could be done in Port-au-Prince, one of the most dilapidated cities on the face of the earth? And who would have thought that these sound wave images could be converted into a video that showed Princess’s tiny beating heart full of dark holes begging for repair.

And just as amazing who would have thought that this video could be "downloaded" to a little laptop computer and then "uploaded" with a wireless signal for the rest of the world to see? This just doesn’t seem possible.

With this technology cardiologists in four countries have now seen Princess’s echocardiogram and all agree she has a congenital heart defect called complete AV canal. And they all agree she needs surgery.

In the old days doctors were good with their ears diagnosing congenital heart disease. And a few could have accurately diagnosed babies like Princess without a sound wave test. But heart surgeons back then could not have stopped the baby's heart and repaired the heart because there was no good way to circulate blood. And at the baby's autopsy the surgeon would smoke his cigarette, shake his head, and stare at the hole in the heart that killed the baby. But today we have incredible bypass technology. A skilled surgeon and bypass team now connect the baby to bypass, stop the heart, fix the heart, restart the heart, and remove the baby from bypass.

All of this diagnostic and curative technology is available and being used everyday. We all know what is wrong with Princess and we know how to make her better.

But for Princess it might as well be 1950. We have diagnosed her but we have not agreed to do anything for her. The real challenge for Princess now will not be finding new technology or disseminating information about her. The challenge is to repair OUR hearts and deliver Princess the care she deserves.

John A. Carroll, MD
www.haitianhearts.org

Ebstein's Anomaly

Marc--February, 2014
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Daniel

Daniel
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Daniel's Home Visit--- But Who is the Patient?--Update Three http://t.co/UYojO7xcqf
— John A. Carroll (@haitianhearts) March 5, 2014

Princess Buggie

Princess Buggie and Grandma--February 26, 2014
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This sweet baby girl named Princess Buggie was born with holes in her heart and she needs surgery ASAP. If you have any leads on who would want to save this little but important life, let me know.

I have done a History and Physical and have an up to date echocardiogram. (Princess has an AV Canal.)

Thank you.

John A. Carroll, MD
haitianhearts@gmail.com
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