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@rexm - No not at all... I have great insurance. I was told by more than 1 dr. "I know what I'm doing"! Honestly, I believe it was an ego thing.... and not to point fingers... but they were men and I felt they were dismissive to me and my symptoms. They were ALL testing for why I still had such shortness of breath and chest pain/pressure. Hence the 5 caths and a femoral dissection as a result of 1 of them! I went to 2 pulmonary specialists who tested me extensively and my lungs were fine. However, my new cardiologist, since February, is a woman cardiologist, and she ordered a PET cardiac stress scan and it was "normal" and that's when I insisted on MRI cardiac stress and she "slightly" hesitated with a response, "I'll try to get authorization" and I immediately said I don't need authorization - please order it now and that took 2 months to get an appt. Now she said "Good thing WE ordered an MRI"! lol AND there's no explanation from PET Scan radiologist why it did not show up on that test and it should have.