Re: Stress Test - worth the effort?

Thanks for the reply Hawki

Hawki63@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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> just wondering ...if a second opinion is that far away....WHERE would you
> have to go for angiogram etc???

Same place - Sydney - they have begun doing them locally (bush hospital - 500km
from the cities) , but the guy doing them here is only a physician, not a
cardiologist, and has only been doing them for a year or so - too risky if
anything goes wrong as I think I would be dead before they xported me to the
big city hospital

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> remember the docs that do the angiograms ARE cardiologists....

The guy I saw was only a physician

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> at least here in the US it is unlikely that one would make it to the cath
> lab without a stress test tho.

I did have one of those about 9 years ago, but they have done all the other
caths without one

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> good luck to you..

Thanks mate

David


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