![]() ![]() The COVID-19 virus attacks the lining of the arteries just as heart disease does. The Overlooked PandemicĬOVID and heart disease have a lot in common. Frieden, MD, MPH, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said that heart disease has become “a pandemic so common it is invisible…so routinely lethal it seems normal…and so ingrained in the fabric of modern society it seems natural.” Indeed, heart attacks and strokes happen so frequently-every 40 seconds in the US-that we barely raise an eyebrow when we hear of them occurring. In a recent Wall Street Journal essay, Thomas R. February is American Heart Month-a time to put the spotlight on heart disease, the number-one cause of death for all Americans regardless of gender, race or ethnicity. ![]() And in fact, many people have died from it…just over a million in the US alone.įrightening as that is, there’s another disease that has killed nearly twice as many Americans in the same time span…yet receives far less attention-heart disease. Much of the world has lived in a state of anxiety, concerned about the possibility of contracting the novel coronavirus or even dying from it. But today, it is common in everyday conversation, referring to the COVID-19 outbreak that has radically changed all our lives over the last three years. Suzanne’s motto for life balance, success, healing and ultimate happiness is simply “live from the heart.” Learn more at her website at and on Facebook and Twitter.īefore 2019, we didn’t hear the word “pandemic” very often. She is on the New York City Board of the American Heart Association. Steinbaum is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association, and a national spokesperson for the Go Red for Women campaign and a chairperson of the Go Red for Women in New York City. Suzanne Steinbaum’s Heart Book: Every Woman’s Guide to a Heart Healthy Life and coauthor of Lower Your Blood Pressure Naturally, she has been awarded a New York Times Super Doctor and a Castle Connolly Top Doctor for Cardiovascular Disease and named to New York magazine’s prestigious Best Doctors list. Previously, she was the director of Women’s Cardiovascular Prevention, Health and Wellness at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City and director of Women’s Heart Health at Northwell Lenox Hill, also in New York City. Suzanne Steinbaum is an attending cardiologist in private practice specializing in prevention and wellness using her unique, personalized strategy designed specifically for women called SRSHeart that empowers them to live heart-healthy lives. It drags off a fat abbot by his cassock, leads an abbess away by the habit as though she were an animal, and takes the form of two skeletons and two demons to see to the pope himself.Dr. It comes as little surprise, then, that Death reserves particularly grim treatment for members of the Catholic clergy. So Holbein was working close to the heart of the accelerating movement for Church reform. The year before he began The Dance, he had illustrated Martin Luther’s influential translation of the New Testament into German. In the 1520s, Holbein was busy trying to earn a living in Basel, painting murals and portraits, designing stained glass windows, and illustrating books. It would be another decade before he established himself in England, where he painted his most enduring masterpiece The Ambassadors (1533), in which two wealthy, powerful and worldly young men stand above (and oblivious to) an anamorphic skull that signals the ultimate vanity of all that wealth, power and worldliness. Holbein drew the woodcuts between 15, while in his twenties and based in the Swiss town of Basel. In contrast, Death seems to come to the aid of the poor ploughman, by driving his horses for him and releasing him from a life of toil the glowing church in the background implies this old man is on his way to heaven. A chain around Death’s neck suggests he is taking revenge on corrupt judges on behalf of those they have wrongfully imprisoned. For example, Death sneaks up behind the judge, who is ignoring a poor man to help a rich one, and snaps his staff, the symbol of his power, in two. As such the series is a forerunner to the satirical paintings and political cartoons of the eighteenth century and beyond. In fact it tends to treat the rich and powerful with extra force. Death, the great leveller, lets no one escape. Death gives each a special treatment: skewering a knight through the midriff with a lance dragging a duchess by the feet out of her opulent bed snapping a sailor’s mast in two. ![]() In a series of action-packed scenes Death intrudes on the everyday lives of thirty-four people from various levels of society - from pope to physician to ploughman. The Dance of Death by the German artist Hans Holbein (1497–1543) is a great, grim triumph of Renaissance woodblock printing. ![]()
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