Bruce Wilkoff, MD, is director of Cardiac Pacing and Tachyarrhythmia Devices at the Cleveland Clinic and a professor of medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. He is also the president of the Heart Rhythm Society. www.HRSonline.org
Last year, someone dear to me had a pacemaker placed in her chest. She’s a trooper so she took it…
