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    Jim Chinnis
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    [email hidden] (GS) wrote in part:

    Quoted message said:

    A few weeks ago I had a heart cath prior to having gallbladder
    removed. Previously had bypass twice, once at age 40 and
    another at age 49. The cath this time showed that one of my
    bypasses has closed. The Dr. said it appears to have been
    closed for a long time. He never spoke with me after the cath,
    he spoke with my wife and family. I prescribed Imdur for angina
    and said good bye. No followup, never spoke with me, nothing.
    Never even spoke about things like angioplasty or stents. Just
    take this pill, bye. All the cardiologists here have formed a group
    and all cardiologists here belong to the group. Appointments
    consist of tests and surgery. That's all. No consultation, no
    time for questions. Sorta like an assembly line with no stopping
    along the way for any reason. I feel like I have been thrown aside
    and left waiting to die. I don't like this but with all the cardiac doctors
    banded together we don't have a choice. This is the pits.

    It does sound like the pits. If you are fee-for-service, you can withhold
    payment pending a consultation. I would demand a thorough discussion of my
    situation, in any case.

    Your doctor may want to see your response to the new prescription before
    considering other options.

    I'll add that bypasses, angioplasties, and stents are really to treat angina,
    so if the medication handles the angina, you may not need any surgery.

    None of the surgical treatments address the actual disease. What are you doing
    for the atherosclerosis itself? Diet? Exercise? Weight loss? Blood pressure
    control? Aspirin? Statin? Etc.?
    --
    Jim Chinnis Warrenton, Virginia, USA

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  2. GS
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    In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden]

    Quoted message said:

    It does sound like the pits. If you are fee-for-service, you can withhold
    payment pending a consultation. I would demand a thorough discussion of my
    situation, in any case.

    Your doctor may want to see your response to the new prescription before
    considering other options.

    I'll add that bypasses, angioplasties, and stents are really to treat angina,
    so if the medication handles the angina, you may not need any surgery.

    None of the surgical treatments address the actual disease. What are you doing
    for the atherosclerosis itself? Diet? Exercise? Weight loss? Blood pressure
    control? Aspirin? Statin? Etc.?

    Doing most of the above. Low fat diet, losing weight (down 20 pounds in
    2 months), blood pressure good, asprin a day and taking Zocor.
    Exercise is limited due to diabetic periperal neuropathy. Diabetes
    diagnosed about two years ago. Neuropathy started about 15 years
    ago.

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  3. Jim Chinnis
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    [email hidden] (GS) wrote in part:

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    None of the surgical treatments address the actual disease. What are you doing
    for the atherosclerosis itself? Diet? Exercise? Weight loss? Blood pressure
    control? Aspirin? Statin? Etc.?

    Doing most of the above. Low fat diet, losing weight (down 20 pounds in
    2 months), blood pressure good, asprin a day and taking Zocor.
    Exercise is limited due to diabetic periperal neuropathy. Diabetes
    diagnosed about two years ago. Neuropathy started about 15 years
    ago.

    Sorry for your problems, but it looks like managing the diabetes very tightly
    and controlling all the modifiable heart disease risk factors is the way to
    go. But you do need doctors who will talk with you!
    --
    Jim Chinnis Warrenton, Virginia, USA

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  4. Bigjon
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    Jim Chinnis declared:

    <snip>

    Quoted message said:

    I'll add that bypasses, angioplasties, and stents are really to treat angina,
    so if the medication handles the angina, you may not need any surgery.

    <snip>

    I would argue that one - I was in the middle of the third heart attack
    within a week, on a hospital bed in agony, when I was told that I was to
    sent immediately by ambulance 30 miles to a specialist treatment centre for
    urgent angioplasty and stenting.
    Within the hour I was in recovery after having 4 stents placed in.

    I don't think I was treated with stents for angina ??
    --
    You can't have it all -
    Where would you put it ?

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  5. Jim Chinnis
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    Bigjon <[email hidden]> wrote in part:

    Quoted message said:

    Jim Chinnis declared:

    <snip>

    Quoted message said:

    I'll add that bypasses, angioplasties, and stents are really to treat angina,
    so if the medication handles the angina, you may not need any surgery.

    <snip>

    I would argue that one - I was in the middle of the third heart attack
    within a week, on a hospital bed in agony, when I was told that I was to
    sent immediately by ambulance 30 miles to a specialist treatment centre for
    urgent angioplasty and stenting.
    Within the hour I was in recovery after having 4 stents placed in.

    I don't think I was treated with stents for angina ??

    OK, yeah. Unless you want to call a heart attack extreme angina, which, of
    course, it is.
    --
    Jim Chinnis Warrenton, Virginia, USA

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