Finally tracked down Dr. Lown's essays #28 and #31. While I may have an extremely high calcium score (4048) and I'm fearing the worst, I think it would now be harder to convince me -- a guy with no current symptoms -- to undergo CABG based on some test results, as apparently many have done. I will do the nuclear stress test I've got scheduled for this week, but may stop there if I pass despite many here and elsewhere who say that test is not definitive and cath or such much be done as well.

I already have a stent in my neck for carotid artery disease that progressed to 90%, also without symptoms, and all that was/is fine so far. (Done fall 2022). But a part of me is questioning the value of a bunch of procedures, particularly something big like CABG, when I feel fine.

Is modern medicine keeping me from dropping dead any second, or consuming with me with unnecessary worry and intervention? I'm not sure. There's a definite part of me who wishes I'd never gotten any of these tests.