Pre-Surgical Complications (Part 4)

By MATTHEW HOLT Strap in for the tale of why your hero is spending most of his life down YouTube rabbit holes of cardiology videos while blundering his way around many many medical centers and exposing many problems with American health care even before he gets close to the operating table. Yes it’s Matthew Holt’s pre-surgical complications – the complications that have arisen before he even gets his failing aortic valve fixed. And yes this is a multi-parter! Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 Getting in touch But while knowing this stuff may be simple, actually getting to speak to the people at these medical centers is way more complicated. First you have to set up the data. I knew they would want to see my images. The good news was that although I couldn’t see any of the images in my UCSF MyChart account, there’s a number to call on the bottom of the reports if you want to “download the image” and a very nice tech was able to upload all my images to a website that I could see called AmbraHealth (now part of Intelrad) within a couple of hours. Now I can share them with other people similar to sharing a Google doc. But that was the easiest part. I will spare you the blow by blow account but fo...