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Getting Good Brains On Heart Issues

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It's a lot easier to say the acronym "STEMI" than to pronounce what it stands for: ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction.

It's the most severe kind of heart attack, the kind of heart attack Ashland resident Finn Honore experienced. 

He's alive to talk about it because he received treatment at in Medford. 

ARRMC just won an award from the American Heart Association for its handling of heart patients. 

We hear what that handling involves, from Finn Honore and his cardiologist, Dr. Kent Dauterman.  
 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the ÀÏ·ò×Ó´«Ã½ Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.