You don't need your doctor's permission to see a cardiologist for preventive care. Many patients wait for a referral, but you can seek proactive cardiac screening directly through practices like Clear Cardio without gatekeeper approval.
One myth that I busted was because of you, and that was that I needed my general doctor's kind of permission, or like they needed to recommend me or refer me to a doctor like you, a preventive cardiologist, which you're like a unicorn. I always thought that I had to have the doctor's permission or they had to recommend me because my insurance company to go see a cardiologist. We call them gatekeepers. Gatekeepers. Right. And that's not true. And they kept slamming the door. That's not true. So those of you who want to take proactive You absolutely can. I know, I'm proof, and I've got lots of friends and colleagues. And all the patients that Dr. Osborne sees through Clear Cardio, a lot of them decided that they weren't going to wait. Unfortunately, most of them had symptoms, and that's why they came, because it's still a learning process. We're still going through that process of education.
