What Valentine Gifts Can Physicians Give To Heart Disease Patients?
Have you purchased your Valentine gifts? 
Tuesday is February 14 and that’s Valentine’s Day. Many are rushing to stores to buy Valentine gifts for their sweethearts. You may forget birthdays or anniversaries. But TV and other public media have plenty of reminders about Valentine’s Day. There’s no excuse to forget.
Showing up without Valentine cards and gifts can be deadly to your relationship!
What your favorite Valentine Gifts?
Valentine flowers are nice. Diamonds and other jewelry are forever. Chocolate is fun. And studies have found that dark chocolate can be good the your heart – in small doses. But, it’s Valentine’s Day, so splurge a little.
As a physician, you don’t actually give your patients Valentine gifts. But the gift of good health is more precious than material gifts. You may not be able to heal a romantic heart ache or a broken heart.
But you treat the literal / physical human heart. So you can help your heart disease patients.
February is also American Heart Month. There’s an epidemic of heart failure. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States.
Hopefully you are taking the American Heart Month opportunity to educate your patients on heart disease prevention, treatment and other heart disease info. One of the goals of the HITECH Act and the transition to electronic health records is to educate patients and get them engaged in their own health care.
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