I remember in the late 1990s my father was in Chicago sick and living by himself. He had the "runs"real bad and was getting weak refusing to call an ambulance. I called my brother in St. Louis and said either you drive right now and take him to a doc or I catch the next flight out to Chicago. Either way it was about the same time for me to get there as him. My brother took him to a walk in clinic and they immediately gave him fluids and sent him to a hospital. My father was severely dehydrated. At the hospital a cardio wanted to put a pacemaker in my father. I happened to work at large university medical school hospital. A friend of mine at the hospital was an EP researcher and specialist. He wrote books on this stuff. I called him and he was in Boston with about 12 other of the top EP researchers in the country in a meeting. He said fax me (we didn't have the ability in late 1990s to email stuff like that) the ECG and I will present it to the group. Later he called me back and said that everybody agreed my father did not need a pacemaker as this was just a result of dehydration. This doc said he had seen 20 year old athletes with the same rhythm my father was in from dehydration. So I told my brother to tell that doc forget the pacemaker. The guy was furious and pitched and fit and yelled at my bother that father some day will be back to get a pacemaker. He lived to 86 y.o. and never needed a pacemaker.

Thank you for your explanation.
I agree completely with you that peer experience is as valuable sometimes as medical opinion.
I am 82 and paid a heavy price when for more than 40 years I was misdiagnosed.
I am grateful to Mayo Clinic to give us the opportunity of exchanging our experiences and asking for assistance.