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Britain
Paging Steve White: Tony Blair in hospital!
2004-09-30
Get well soon, Tony. The world needs you!
British Prime Minister Tony Blair will go into hospital Friday for a procedure to correct heart palpitations but will be fully functioning and back at work next week, his office said in a statement. Blair had heart palpitations late last year and suffered a "mild recurrence" in August, the statement said. He will stay in hospital overnight, rest over the weekend and be back to work next week -- a schedule that includes a trip to Africa. "You have got to stand for the full-term," Blair told television stations. "I have a deep passion to carry on the work we have done. I've got this routine procedure on my heart which is connected with the sort of thing I had last year ... It's a minor routine procedure," Blair said. "It doesn't stop me working."
And thank goodness for that.
Blair's cardiologist, Punit Ramrakha, said the procedure was like "fixing the electric wire circuit in our homes. The recovery time is short with patients able to return to work and undertake full activities within 2-3 days," he said in a statement.
Tony is having a catheter ablation of a "supraventricular tachycardia". These are common as you get older. While you can treat this with drugs, ablation is very easy and works permanently. Sounds like he's had this for a while, according to the article, and it's time to stop fooling with it.

Then again, perhaps they wanted to fix it in 2003, and only now were able to get Tony on the NHS list for the procedure :-)
Posted by:Seafarious

#1  Punit Ramrakha - Indian Cardiologist... Didn't I see a story where curry has been suggested as a holistic medicine treatment for cardiac problems?

Pass the Palak please...
Posted by: BigEd   2004-09-30 5:43:23 PM  

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