I told him he’d
I told him he’d have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer. Eugene Ormandy
Heart Attack
It was the old
It was the old psychosomatic side-step. Everyone in my family dances it at every opportunity. You’ve given me a splitting headache! You’ve given me indigestion! You’ve given me crotch rot! You’ve given me auditory hallucinations! You’ve given me a heart attack! You’ve given me cancer! Erica Jong
The ability to diagnose
The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine. Eric Topol
When I was young,
When I was young, my father had a serious heart attack. He survived, but we lost our house and car. Under the Canadian Medicare system, though, we would have kept the house and car and would have just had to pay the inheritance tax. Emo Philips
I started getting these
I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I’d be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to … Read more
Like a lot of
Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house. Elizabeth Warren
On May 7, a
On May 7, a few weeks after the accident at Three-Mile Island, I was in Washington. I was there to refute some of that propaganda that Ralph Nader, Jane Fonda and their kind are spewing to the news media in their attempt to frighten people away from nuclear power. I am 71 years old, and … Read more
If I ever have
If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I’m gonna have a heart attack. Edward Norton
Suicidal thinking, if serious,
Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such a phase both warier and chastened. When-ten years ago-I emerged from a bad dip into suicidal speculation, I felt utterly exhausted and yet quite fearless of ordinary dangers, vastly afraid … Read more
People who think there\’s
People who think there’s no good way to die have obviously never heard the phrase ‘Drug-fuelled-sex-heart-attack’. Frankie Boyle