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gab13by13

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5. Not enough screaming is being done about this.
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 08:42 AM
Saturday

6 years ago I had an ablation done to fix my A-fib, I was lucky to get the surgeon who wrote the book on ablation, haven't had an issue since, knock on wood. The success rate of ablations back then was around 70%, there was a new procedure, and a study was being done that upped the success rate to 95%. The surgeon asked me if I wanted to volunteer for the new procedure, and I agreed. Luckily my problem wasn't bad enough to qualify me for the new program because then Covid hit and I had my regular procedure scheduled just in time to get in.

I mean medical research upped the success rate of curing A-fib from 70% to 95%. Instead of just freezing the bad electrical signal coming from the heart the surgeon would do a procedure on the kidney because the kidney in some way causes high blood pressure. So the new ablation procedure would be two fold, fix the bad electrical signal and lower blood pressure.

The Magat Death Party is designed to kill more people and to shorten the lives of more people. The Magat Death Party wants to kill unwashed Americans, wants to kill research to help us live longer. We will have to rely upon other countries for advances in medicine.

That's just my one example where medical research helped the world to live longer.

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