A patient had multiple heart catheterizations and a cardiac CT scan, but cardiologists kept pushing surgery or stents. A small change to medication eliminated the symptoms instead, showing how invasive procedures were recommended when drugs could have worked.
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Through all your cardiology journeys and all that, you know, I think you had multiple procedures. Yes. You had at least one, maybe 2 heart caths. I'm trying to remember now. He had a cardiac CT, all of these tests done. And every time he saw one of these cardiologists, some said surgery, some said stents, but all of them said, you need mechanical fixes. And I don't think anyone actually ever really spent much time talking about the medical side of it. What are we going to do to treat the disease? It was all about treating the Blockages or the concern about blockages. And the symptoms associated with it. Well, right. You had some symptoms initially. We basically, with a little tweak of medication, it went away.