| Description: | When you receive a diagnosis that is urging you to consider open-heart surgery, making the decision for surgery and selecting a highly experienced surgeon suddenly becomes your number one priority. Short of an emergency, no matter how little time you have, please get a second opinion, even a third. You will be putting your life in this professionals hands. You owe it to yourself to investigate all the risks and benefits, to take it all in, to discuss the decision-making with several close allies, then - most of all to check in with yourself and to honor your own gut feeling. |
