An Interview with Dr. Bill Blanchet:
Heart Disease Prevention Champion

One of our Track Your Plaque members stumbled upon Dr. Bill Blanchet’s intriguing comments on a forum on the www.theHeart.org website. (Interestingly, our member, calling himself John Q. Public, engaged the defender-of-the-status quo, Dr. Melissa Shirley-Walton, and several others physicians in the discussion only to be later blocked from further participation because he was a non-physician. Dr. Blanchet’s requested that our member be allowed to continue his posting to no avail. Perhaps two against the crowd presented unfair odds!)

Judging from Dr. Blanchet’s comments, it was clear that he was a vocal—and exceptionally well-versed—advocate of heart scanning. He systematically and deftly parried comment after comment from the discussion participants, citing the scientific data and his substantial experience with heart scanning and argued for the concepts of detection, quantification, and tracking of coronary plaque. He passionately criticizes the tragic folly of the conventional approach to heart disease.

While he may not have fully succeeded in persuading the physicians on theHeart.org forum to embrace heart scans, he certainly proved himself an exceptionally knowledgeable proponent of the technology and its role.

So we decided to ask Dr. Blanchet about some of the lessons he’s learned over the past few years following his approach. Interestingly, Dr. Blanchet, a primary care physician, was unaware of the Track Your Plaque approach and evolved his own approach independently.
 

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