Island Life Magazine Ltd April/May 2010 | Page 118

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Island Life - April/May 2010

Photo: Left: Dr Paul Iosifidis (Junior Doctor), Liz Gerfen (Health Care Assistant), Dr Dominic Lamb
(Consultant Cardiologist), Stephanie Walker (Staff Nurse), Stuart Browne (Senior Physiotherapist)

Love your heart
Roz Whistance meets Dr Dominic Lamb, Consultant Cardiologist at St
Mary’s Hospital, Newport

THERE is something terribly reassuring about

is the regional centre for that. “You need a

meeting Dr Dominic Lamb. He seems to wear

lot of equipment – and people – for that sort

his Consultant status lightly, by-passing lofty

of thing and on the Island there aren’t the

rank to engage with you warmly. Which is what

numbers who require the surgery to justify that.

you want, of course, if you are the patient

You wouldn’t want a cardiac surgeon doing

coming to him with concerns about your heart.

nothing for most of the time, then doing an

Dominic Lamb, Consult