The tale of the doctor with the broken heart

Guest Post by Alex Berenson

Expect to see a lot more sad, puzzled stories like this in the months to come

Dr. Kimberly Becher seems like a very good human being.

I’m not being sarcastic.

Dr. Becher is a family medicine physician in West Virginia who spent the best part of a decade caring for underserved and poor patients in a county that didn’t have a single stoplight, much less a hospital.

She grew up not far from that county, became the high school valedictorian, got out and came back. Okay, fine, her Twitter feed is somewhat annoyingly woke, but she comes by it honestly.

I know all this about Dr. Becher (except the part about her Twitter) because the New York Times saw fit to write a long profile of her today, entitled “A Rural Doctor Gave Her All. Then Her Heart Broke.”

The article explains how in April 2021, Dr. Becher “suddenly felt as if she were having a heart attack. She left for the emergency room, barely able to see, her blood pressure dangerously high.”

Her tweet from April 24, 2021 offers more details: “250/125 with runs of vtach [ventricular tachycardia], troponins trending up, cath [cardiac catherization], ICU.” No wonder she wound up in intensive care – that blood pressure reading is an immediate cardiovascular emergency all by itself.

Fortunately, Dr. Becher was only 41 at the time of the crisis, and she was in good shape – she had been training for a marathon. She recovered fully, although she has given up on distance running.

But what caused Dr. Becher’s heart problems?

She was given a diagnosis of “Takotsubo’s cardiomyopathy,” sometimes called “broken heart disease.” Essentially, Takotsubo’s is a temporary weakening of the heart’s left ventricle, usually said to be caused by extreme stress. One paper describes it as “mimicking” a heart attack “but with only minimal release of cardiac enzymes.”

While Takotsubo’s can affect anyone, it most often develops in elderly women, often after they have suffered a severe emotional crisis such as the loss of a spouse. As Dr. Becher told the Times:

Takotsubo’s is typically caused by severe acute stress, something traumatic and abrupt. Mine was just from going to work every day and seemed super lame to me in the moment.

After all, Dr. Becher had been caring for underserved patients for years. She and the article both blame fights over Covid vaccinations – an interesting theory given that West Virginia had such HIGH vaccination rates in early 2021 the Centers for Disease Control actually lauded it.

Another crucial element of a Takotsubo’s diagnosis is that it is what physicians call a diagnosis of exclusion. Essentially, diagnoses of exclusion are given to patients as a last resort, when more conventional diagnoses do not fit. There is nothing wrong with them, but they are inherently somewhat unsatisfying – more prone to error than diagnoses that have stronger laboratory biomarkers.

As Becher described her illness on April 24: “Current diagnosis=takotsubo, literally from the #moralinjury of my job… I definitely had a moment of embarrassment at the diagnosis.”

So was there anything else that could have caused Dr. Becher’s sudden cardiac event – any new factor known to cause heart problems, especially in younger adults in good health?

Perhaps. And yet it goes not merely dismissed but completely unmentioned in the Times’s piece about her.

You’ve probably guessed by now what it might be.

Let’s all be thankful Dr. Becher has made a full recovery.

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Dag
Dag

Yeah, that thankful thing?
No
I can be thankful that friends and family that took one, recovered.
It was early, even tho the information was out there, taking one at the time, explainable and could be, if one squints, seen as a good effort.
The folks who took 2, cause they wanted to travel,
go to movies, eat in restaurants, sigh, keep their jobs, protect the mortgage, that was a double down, a gas on the fire to extinguish the fire type thing.
There’s some sympathy available, some understanding while acknowledging, the bastards would need to label the theorist as conspiracys and would have loaded the purebloods into boxcars with unloaded rifles.
Too be a medical professional, to have encouraged, to have pressured, cajoled and insulted wise informed folks with “muh education”!
While shooting folks in the arm with clotshots?
Burn.
Burn and let me hear their pains as a chorus in church, as a catchy jingle I can sing along too.
Harden your hearts purebloods, this doctor and her ilk deserve nothing but a suicide vest and a destination chosen for maximum retribution, that is all.
She’d have signed the paperwork releasing the regime from all liabilities to hasten the ‘urebloods working in the slave camps.
Let her burn and dispose of the tainted ashes appropriately.

Let the world burn
Let the world burn

Ah, what a shame, truly.

Pieter in ZA
Pieter in ZA

Where is Tiffany Dover?

J Far
J Far

Either dead, or else sick and paid off to stay out of sight.

Zedder
Zedder

That was so funny. Here s what the shot will do to people….. thump. “Oh boy I need one of those!” Still LMAO

Warren

Probably long since cremated

bidenTouchesKids
bidenTouchesKids

Let’s all be thankful

Ah, no. Just another doctor who works for big Pharma and pushed death shots on people or refused treatment unless you toed the Wuhan flu fear machine (masks and death shots).
Karma is biting her in the ass and it’s beautiful to see.

Zedder
Zedder

Just blame the pusher man. Don’t let people take responsibility for their own inaction in educating themselves. Stupid people die, darn. People all have cellphones (not me) a wealth of information at their fingertips for years. Out of about 100 people only 2 looked at moderna’s website at my behest. All that time locked down to do their own research. But only cared about tik tok instagram. Not themselves, not their parents, children etc. Let’em die its their own fault. Not the pusher. Not one single person was forced to take it. “But I can’t lose my job” why your so incompetent you can’t get another one? “I have kids” You have no savings? You have no balls to standup for yourself and make them fire you? People are weak stupid, and shortsighted.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

Okay, fine, her Twitter feed is somewhat annoyingly woke, but she comes by it honestly.

What does that mean? Being woke requires that you sublimate reality and reason in order to signal your virtue by regurgitating blatant falsehoods that are politically acceptable. One cannot come by falsehoods honestly, it’s an oxymoron.

And once more we are assured that she is “healthy” when anyone with two eyeballs can see that she is neither physically fit (NYT article has a photo of the woman that clearly shows someone overweight) nor looks rested and alert judging from the masked photo above. Her skin is sallow and even without seeing the lower half of her face I can clearly see that she is tired and stressed.

Why do we continue to accept lies as if they were statements of truth? It makes no sense.

Anonymous
Anonymous

We need a repost on TBP of those 5 psychological experiments.

I think the 1 with respondents having to lie without much to gain comes to mind. How they make up their justification.

Anonymous
Anonymous

yea was looking for them over the weekend. Admin should have a special section

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Most people on the left are bad at math, and can’t assess comparative risks. They think cops kill thousands of unarmed black men every year – more than die at the hands of black criminals. They think that we could run an industrial society with windmills. They have no idea where lithium or cobalt come from, how they’re extracted, how limited the known reserves are or that they’re vital components of a Tesla. Yesterday I saw a woman driving a Tesla wearing a mask with the windows rolled up.

Some sublimate reality. Many seem incapable of even comprehending reality.

Zedder
Zedder

Saw a picture of some big boob dude wearing a mask, walking outside on his way to teach kids….

KJ
KJ

Let’s all be thankful Dr. Becher has made a full recovery.

Let’s not, Berenson, you dipshit.

brian
brian

I’m with you, she’s facilitating killing and injuring people.

Warren

She hasn’t made a full recovery, she’s just in vax injured remission. And considering she’s probably going to get Boosted, most likely for the second time, she’s not done with the vax, and it’s not done with her.

Wolf Moon

A very prescient observation. Based on not just the now-infamous “clusters” of confirmed dead doctors with each wave of boosters, but even more so on the increases in the SIZE of the clusters, this lady doc is very likely to get caught by one of them.

The administration of these shots to medical personnel FIRST, advocated by Bill and Melinda Gates and CDC, was monstrously anti-safety, and even criminal, when they KNEW the extreme cardiovascular risks of both the virus and the fraudulently tested vaccines.

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Notice that Fauci and his ilk never talked about cardiovascular risks? To me, this hiding of information shows “consciousness of guilt” – IMO about some “save the planet” depop scheme. Their intent to drive the shots to children in spite of known cardiac risks betrays them.

Mad world
Mad world

The poor bunnies. They’ve done nothing to deserve this.

KaD
KaD

Has she made a full MENTAL recovery and gone anti-vax?

James
James

I am still going with the frog when it comes to medical advice!

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That said,he does promote eating bugs but tis OK as he is a frog!

Anonymous
Anonymous

Glad I talked my family out of this BS, had to threaten a couple hard headed sons but they came around after waiting and watching for a while. Helps that everyone they know and respect said hell no.

Unreal
Unreal

She should lose her medical license for stupidity.

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