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I want you to give us a quick or reasonably quick primer on other things that tend to confuse

patients such as calcium scores versus CT angiograms.

And I even want to touch on heart flow in a minute because that comes back to it.

So I think the listener is no way calcium scores in a CT angiogram is.

So just give this the quickest sense of that because what I'm much more interested in

is what do the results tell us?

As a cardiologist practicing in 2019, I struggle with the question of whether I'm going to

help you or hurt you.

That I feel this tremendous sense of uncertainty about whether I should be as aggressive as

I can picking up every rock and looking under everything and trying to optimize to the

best of my extant my ability versus whether that may be the best thing I can do is leave

you alone.

And you've probably seen examples too where I remember again as a cardiology fellow, maybe

even as a resident where somebody would come in from an outside hospital sick as shit,

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