Triathlon and the Denial of Saint Peter

This is a big subject.  I told my patients with Panic Attacks that they will be like Saint Peter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter

Denial of Jesus by Peter

Main article: Denial of Peter

All four canonical gospels recount that, during the Last Supper, Jesus foretold that Peter would deny him three times before the following cockcrow ("before the cock crows twice" in Mark's account).

This is a real issue with patients because they do not call me and forget everything they were told when they enter panic.  Most of them end in the emergency room or with the doctor next door who is available.  I have read in my continuing medical education that up to 44% of the patients with catheterization (doctors look at the heart arteries by injecting a contrast and film at the same time) will continue to believe they have a heart lesion when they have a “type of panic disorder.”

“Patients are often not reassured by investigations; in a study of patients suffering from NCCP (Non-cardiac-pain), 44% believed they had heart disease in spite of a normal angiogram.[9] There is some evidence that the process of investigation itself may entrench the mistaken idea of cardiac disease.”  WWW.MEDSCAPE.ORG Management of Noncardiac Chest Pain in Women.

We can talk about running technique and nobody fully believes what she/he sees.  Please read our previous post, July 17, 2012. RUNNING TECHNIQUE and see in this video how Dibaba and the first pack run. Nobody is striking with the heels.  If you want to be first pack you need to touch the ground with the “ball” of your foot!  Please believe it, do not become part of the 44% non-believers as in the case of the cardiac patients that even when they see no heart lesion, they still believe they have one.  Dibaba won the 10k in this Olympics.