SCAD Alliance Executive Director Featured on Huffington Post
June 29, 2014
On June 17, 2014, Nancy Brown, CEO of the American Heart Association, asked Rachel Doucette, executive director of SCAD Alliance, to tell her story through a guest column on Huffington Post entitled “SCAD: The Ultimate Heart Break.” The blog post states what spontaneous coronary artery dissection patients know all too well, which is our survival depends on the responsiveness of health care providers in recognizing SCAD. Without standard risk factors of heart disease, we don’t “look” like a heart attack or sudden cardiac arrest.
Read the entire article on Huffington Post through this link: SCAD: The Ultimate Heart Break
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