Dido still had problems getting a cardiologist even after relocating due to doctor shortages and waitlists.
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There was no cardiologist to speak to. So when I ended up in the hospital one of the cardiologists that I saw seemed to be completely disbelieving my story and did not believe that I had a cardiologist in [previous city]. I had left [previous province] with this report and that report has been attached to me and attached to a referral to a cardiology in [new province] and was not picked up. And so it was more than 2 years between the last report in [previous province] and me connecting in [new province] with a cardiologist.
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