Need Practicing RN/NP Advice

He should probably get his affairs in order and say his goodbyes.

It may be a good time to update his iPod playlists, just to avoid any embarrassing irony.

OP, I had an angiogram six months ago. I went to Northwestern in Chicago. The whole experience was very good and I was impressed with their attention to detail before, during and after. The technology used today is awesome and they make it seem effortless. But it's not. My procedure was done by experienced cardiologists - it's was not something they had a resident doing. Assuming you have access to options other than a community hospital, why wouldn't you go there?

I edited my post & omitted that cardiologists told my husband that if the cardiac cath showed he needed an angioplasty, they would do it right there that day. In a small community hospital. I made sure my mother went to St Francis, a hospital known for cardiovascular surgery, when she had an angioplasty,

My husband is acting as if a cath & angioplasty is no big deal - as if it’s an X-ray or a CT scan. He says “I like my cardiologist, he’s a Jewish guy from Brooklyn (my husband is Jewish from Brooklyn ) and he’s really friendly.” I told him ethnicity & friendliness wasn’t the most important thing here - experience is. I don’t believe this hospital even did these procedures a year ago. Plus I didn’t trust my pulmonologist who was affiliated with the same hospital. So I went into the city and was far more satisfied with the clarity of the pulmonologist there.

My husband also wants to do it ASAP. He’s the same person who tried to talk me into going into the city to get abdominal revision surgery in 2014 rather than have it out here. I said I didn’t want to wait to see a new Dr in the city. I had it done here & it was a disaster and he was all “I told you so.” Now he wants to go right into Podunk Hospital for an invasive cardiovascular procedure.