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HCM-ers: Introduce yourself or just say hi
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) | Last Active: 4 days ago | Replies (1195)Comment receiving replies
@walkinggirl Hi Linda, Thx for welcoming me. I am having the Septal Myectomy. Your story sounds miraculous. I will try to talk to the doctors if I get to meet them prior to surgery about what to do if depression worsens after surgery. As it looks now, my schedule prior to surgery doesn't have any such surgeon meeting scheduled. These doctors must be very busy. Hopefully, the schedulers will come up with something soon and I won't show up on June 1 only to find out I can't be fit in.
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@jeannelamana Surgeons meet with their patients. I am not sure, but I believe it is protocol to see patients before operating on them. Before I went to Mayo for surgery, I received a detailed schedule of all tests and interviews which took place the two days before the actual surgery. One interview was with Dr Schaff, my surgeon, two of the others were with the NP and PA working with him. May I suggest using the patient portal to contact your team to verify your dates and to find out your planned schedule during the preliminary tests and interviews? I found the patient portal a more effective tool than the telephone in getting responses.