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I was notified on 4/19/22 that Dr Natale approved me for my ablation. I am just curious if anybody was scheduled for their ablation recently and when was their initial approval.
Don’t want to bother Amy to ask if she has a ballpark estimate 3,4,5 months from approval date?
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I was approved May 18th and am not yet scheduled. I did have a conversation with Amy and asked to be put on the cancellation list (for Austin) when I do get a date.Quote
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I was notified on 4/19/22 that Dr Natale approved me for my ablation. I am just curious if anybody was scheduled for their ablation recently and when was their initial approval.
Don’t want to bother Amy to ask if she has a ballpark estimate 3,4,5 months from approval date?
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From the perspective of another patient waiting for an ablation, I think I would prefer to meet with him in person as everyone says that he is so very reassuring and also in case there was any need for him to listen to your heart or whatever. Also, I would want to leave time to meet with the anesthesiologist. And then there is the possibility of a flight being canceled—it would be desperately disappointing to miss your ablation!Quote
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Any input as far a whether it is better to fly in day early meet with Dr Natale in person in office day before procedure or do telemed with him several days early and just fly in day before procedure
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Any input as far a whether it is better to fly in day early meet with Dr Natale in person in office day before procedure or do telemed with him several days early and just fly in day before procedure From the perspective of another patient waiting for an ablation, I think I would prefer to meet with him in person as everyone says that he is so very reassuring and also in case there was any need for him to listen to your heart or whatever. Also, I would want to leave time to meet with the anesthesiologist. And then there is the possibility of a flight being canceled—it would be desperately disappointing to miss your ablation!
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Any input as far a whether it is better to fly in day early meet with Dr Natale in person in office day before procedure or do telemed with him several days early and just fly in day before procedure From the perspective of another patient waiting for an ablation, I think I would prefer to meet with him in person as everyone says that he is so very reassuring and also in case there was any need for him to listen to your heart or whatever. Also, I would want to leave time to meet with the anesthesiologist. And then there is the possibility of a flight being canceled—it would be desperately disappointing to miss your ablation!
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But I disagree with the in-person meeting reasons. You can fly in the afternoon of the day before the procedure just to make sure you make it. You don't have to arrive on a red-eye at 6am to make a 9am appointment with Natale. He's as reassuring on video as much as he is in-person, and there's zero chance he's going to need to listen to your heart. Your meeting with him will probably be quite brief, maybe 15 minutes, so I wouldn't place too much value in a face-to-face. As the world now knows from the last two years, video conferencing is a powerful tool that comes very close to in-person meetings.
There's also zero chance you're going to get to meet with the anesthesiologist until right before the procedure unless maybe you're a very unusual case. An anesthesiologist might not even have been assigned yet.
I would opt for the virtual meeting.
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Thanks—that is all helpful information. Question: don’t they want to do a CAT scan the day before? I read that somewhere here.
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