The “Heart” of Cardiology: an Imaginary Conversation with Bernard Lown

Abstract

While I was preparing this volume with Angelo Compare and Gianfranco Parati and I was also asking some major international experts for a collaboration with several chapters which make up this book, I felt the need to include the human dimension, some relational and emotive aspects in the treatment of the cardiac patient, together with the technical-scientific dimension, produced by research in psycho-cardiology.

Comment by E. Molinari: Bernard Lown has carefully read this interview and he has expressed his kind approval. He acknowledges that it was able to capture the essence of his thinking with regard to medical practice. We both agree that the current focus in the medical field is on providing care and trying “to fix” organs that do not function properly. We also both wish that future efforts will be directed toward patients’ healing, and we agree that it requires a psychologically artistic enterprise.