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Have you ever struggled to give the best care due to a lack of resources as a cardiologist If yes, what happened??

Please tell me in detail, and what you did to overcome it?

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I am not a cardiologist, but as a pediatric intensivist, I overlap with what cardiologists do. All physicians must live within constraints. Medical devices such as echocardiograms, catheterization laboratories, and stress testing equipment are expensive, so hospitals and medical groups have to go through a budgeting process to prioritize what they will be able to purchase each year. One must show that patient care will truly suffer without the device, or there can be revenue generation from using the device.
Pharmaceuticals are also expensive, so organizations create formularies that constrain what you may wish to prescribe for your patients.
Perhaps most expensive is personnel. A cardiologist, or any physician, may feel they need another medical assistant, mid-level provider, or office person; but the money to hire them (and in some cases a shortage of appropriately trained people such as echocardiography techs) may be hard to come by.
In the current system, cardiologists tend to be revenue generators along with the cardiothoracic surgeons they support, so they are more likely to get what they want than some other specialists.
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