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My pulmonologist fired me

MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Apr 13 10:37am | Replies (20)

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I am interested also to find out more about the interventional pulmonologist role for NTM and MAC. I was previously referrred to one early in my journey but unrelated to this diagnosis. I needed to have a rigid scope bronch done plus a balloon to open up the airways as I had a near pin hole opening to the right lower lobe. While this issue was due to aspiration, my ID says that isn’t related to the mycobacterium infection.

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At my hospital (Yale NewHaven) the Interventional Pulmonologists do the procedures, like bronchoscopies. I'm sure my pulmo COULD do one, but that's not how they divide the work here, so she refers me to them for the bronchoscopy.