Castle Connolly top doctors How important/useful is it the EP we choose be listed as a Castle Connolly top doctor? If my EP is not and others at the same academic hospital are how might I find out why tactfully? Does it matter at all? https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,186181,186181#msg-186181 Sat, 24 Oct 2026 17:52:56 +0000 Phorum 5.2.23 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,186181,186190#msg-186190 Re: Castle Connolly top doctors https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,186181,186190#msg-186190
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Carey- didn’t you get failed ablations (5?) from top tier hospitals such as Yale and a couple from other prominent hospitals before getting a successful ablation from Natale??

Yep, I've had failed ablations from some of the finest. I don't blame the Yale EP much because he told me going in that I was a very complex case, that I most likely had multiple flutter pathways, and that he was not confident of success. But I think if I'd gone to him in the first place, I'd most likely have been a one-and-done. I blame the first guy who was the director of electrophysiology at the UConn school of medicine with impressive credentials and training, and a top rating on best doctor sites. But his ablations only worked for a matter of months, with the longest I got being 9 months. When I finally went to the Yale EP, he found out why. Despite having had 3 prior ablations, he found no evidence whatsoever -- zero -- that I'd had any prior ablations. I was fully reconnected around the pulmonary veins. It seems the UConn EP didn't make durable lesions, so my heart was just healing over them. The only thing he succeeded in doing was creating multiple flutter pathways, including the one that ran at 250 bpm. Natale found them all and squashed them in 2 hours, 20 minutes -- my shortest ablation of all.]]> Carey AFIBBERS FORUM Sun, 17 Jul 2022 20:30:39 +0000 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,186181,186189#msg-186189 Re: Castle Connolly top doctors https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,186181,186189#msg-186189 susan.d AFIBBERS FORUM Sun, 17 Jul 2022 15:38:49 +0000 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,186181,186188#msg-186188 Re: Castle Connolly top doctors https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,186181,186188#msg-186188 Carey's story that he posted.]]> GeorgeN AFIBBERS FORUM Sun, 17 Jul 2022 12:38:13 +0000 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,186181,186186#msg-186186 Re: Castle Connolly top doctors https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,186181,186186#msg-186186 susan.d AFIBBERS FORUM Sun, 17 Jul 2022 09:08:38 +0000 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,186181,186184#msg-186184 Re: Castle Connolly top doctors https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,186181,186184#msg-186184
Just out of curiosity, I did a search for the top EPs in Austin, TX. The results returned about half the staff at Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, with Natale listed 10th. He's arguably the top EP in the world, and yet there was no way to distinguish him from the other 9 listed before him. Then I tried a search in my area, and not one of the EPs I would consider the best in the state were listed at all.]]> Carey AFIBBERS FORUM Sun, 17 Jul 2022 04:40:36 +0000 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,186181,186182#msg-186182 Re: Castle Connolly top doctors https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,186181,186182#msg-186182
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The above is from a previous post of mine some time ago. Sorry I don’t know how to link it. IMO, most “Top Doctor” awards should be viewed with some degree of skepticism. Do your due diligence.]]> Mark AFIBBERS FORUM Sun, 17 Jul 2022 03:09:47 +0000 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,186181,186181#msg-186181 Castle Connolly top doctors https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,186181,186181#msg-186181 bneedell AFIBBERS FORUM Sat, 16 Jul 2022 23:11:05 +0000