Frank Lloyd Wrong

Tucson, Arizona (10/4/1971)


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I think we should stop calling it a "heart attack". It's so VIOLENT. We should call it a coronary artery blockage, or something else... something specific. Heart attack is so scary. At some point during your heart attack, someone is going to tell you that you are "having a heart attack," and who wants to hear that? When you get cirrhosis they don't call it a "Liver Attack". I guess heart attack must feel like you are being attacked. I just know I am going to have a heart attack, and this is what I am going to be thinking about. I'll be the L.L. Cool J of Heart Attacks (don't call it a comeback!). If you're so tough, LL, why are you quibbling over semantics?

In the biz it's called a myocardial infarction ... or an "MI."

I was also going to comment on myocardial infarction. The medicalese is so obtuse, though. I mean, heart attack is something people can relate to.

MI... I like it. Much more calming.

That is the point. They can relate to it too well. It is panic inducing, which isn't a good thing to happen while having a heart attack. Tough to know. We are often better off when we are lied to.