{"id":1171,"date":"2018-03-19T14:39:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T14:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:25:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:25:53","slug":"cardiomegaly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/cardiomegaly\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiomegaly"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>You have a big heart<\/em>,<br \/>\nsaid Dr Broadbent, turning<br \/>\na compliment into a fatal condition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Poem by Olive M Ritch, 2018.<\/p>\n<h3>Commentary<\/h3>\n<p>An unfortunate pun. A nice example of the confusions inherent in communicating with patients.<\/p>\n<p>Orcadian poet Olive M. Ritch has written a number of poems on medical themes, and is a course tutor for Aberdeen Medical School&#8217;s Creative Writing for Medical Students.<\/p>\n<h3>Further info<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk\/poetry\/poems\/message\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Message<\/a> (Scottish Poetry Library), a poem about dementia by Olive M Ritch, was in the <a href=\"http:\/\/hippocrates-poetry.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hippocrates prize<\/a> anthology 2011.<\/li>\n<li>The featured image is from <em>Postmortem pathology; a manual of the technic of post-mortem examinations and the interpretations to be drawn therefrom<\/em> by HW Cattell (JB Lippincot Co, 1906), available from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/internetarchivebookimages\/14581335448\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internet Archive<\/a> (image on Flickr).<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1175 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/cardiomegaly-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/cardiomegaly-3.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/cardiomegaly-3-300x294.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/cardiomegaly-3-768x752.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/>The adjacent image could be the X-ray leading to Dr Broadbent&#8217;s comment. <a href=\"https:\/\/radiopaedia.org\/cases\/cardiomegaly-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Annotated image to show measurements<\/a> by Dr Frank Gaillard on Radiopaedia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Contributed by<\/h3>\n<p>Olive M Ritch<\/p>\n<h3>Rate this post<\/h3>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>More like this<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have a big heart, said Dr Broadbent, turning a compliment into a fatal condition. Poem by Olive M Ritch, 2018. Commentary An unfortunate pun. A nice example of the confusions inherent in communicating with patients. Orcadian poet Olive M. Ritch has written a number of poems on medical themes, and is a course tutor <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/cardiomegaly\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":["default"],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":["default"],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"BlogPosting","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[62,4,14],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cardiology","category-medicine","tag-bad-news","tag-patient-experience","tag-poetry"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":1,"sum_votes":5},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1742,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/1742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}