Jeanette de Richemond

Jeanette de Richemond, MLIS, AHIP, is completing her doctoral dissertation on the concept of having "enough information" to make a clinical diagnosis. She has immersed herself in learning how doctors come to conclusions so that they can act to help patients. She hopes that what she learns about "enough information" can be applied in practice to improve the speed with which such needed information is distributed in many fields. She has been a journalist, a public relations consultant, and an expert medical researcher. She is also a mother and grandmother with dogs and cats and a husband to care for. In writing this book de Richemond used, and added to, a lifetime of knowledge on heart disease collected from various projects in which she has been involved: as a reporter for a newspaper, as a public relations consultant for many heart health care clients, and as an expert medical researcher for a nonprofit organization. Basic knowledge about the heart and heart disease is fairly well known by nurses and physicians but much less so by the general public. This is despite the multitude of pamphlets, books, journals, webpages, medical device information, drug information, heart treatment center outreach programs, and many other private, nonprofit, and governmental information sources. She learned much from these sources and hopes the reader will too through this book.