Topic
Patient Advocacy
The system isn't designed for you. How to fight for the right test, the right diagnosis, and the right specialist when standard workups come back "normal" but you know something's off.
9 articles
Your Angiogram Was Clean. Nobody Tested Whether Your Artery Clamps.
Coronary artery spasm is diagnosed with an acetylcholine test in the cath lab, not an angiogram. What it measures, why it is rarely run, how drugs blunt it.
I Finally Have the Diagnosis That Explains Years of Chest Pressure. It Wasn't Anxiety. It Was Never "All in My Head."
A stent didn't stop the episodes. Every scan said fine. The answer came from the one test I almost turned down.
The Heart-Attack Risk Hiding in Your Immune Cells
A blood mutation called CHIP turns your own immune cells against your arteries, and it is the cleanest case study I know for how the biology of aging drives chronic disease.
The Question No One Asked
A stent fixed my blockage. No test in that room could say whether a silent heart attack had already left a scar.
The Heart Attacks You Never Feel
A coronary blockage can be built by silent ruptures that heal in secret. Mine probably was, and I still spent years refusing the proven treatment that stops them.
I Was Doing Almost Everything Right. It Wasn’t Enough.
I’ve told you about the blockage . I’ve told you about the science the keto world gets wrong . I’ve told you about the tests that missed it and the figh…
The Battle for the Coronary Artery Scan That Saved My Life
I passed the full cardiac workup, all normal. The fight was not against my cardiologist, but against the false comfort of being statistically unlikely.
I Aced Every Cardiac Test. I Still Had an 80% Blockage.
My ECG, echo, Holter, labs, and wearables all looked reassuring. None of them mapped my coronary arteries. Here is the blind spot that nearly killed me.
I Had an 80% Coronary Blockage at 44. Every Test Said I Was Fine.
My name is Nick Hanson. I’m a former health and wellness industry CEO turned clinician-scientist. I’ve been from the boardroom, to the bench, to the bed…