I agree that it is difficult to find physicians that will really partner with patients by allowing the patients to have a say in their testing and treatments. Treatment options, like CLEERLY are available, but seem difficult or "impossible" to access.

This is so frustrating for many of us. We are trying to get to "individual care" based on our unique health situation while "standard of care" wants to treat us as one of 300 million. SOC creates a situation wherein doctors, including cardiologists and PCPs, do not want the risk of 1) insurance company wrath and/or 2) the ire of their colleagues and/or 3) lawsuits.

Doctors have very limited time (an hour per year if we are lucky) to dedicate to our health assessment or treatment. Meanwhile, we patients have "all the time in the world" to assess our situations and potential treatments. It only makes sense that we should be able to impact our health care.