Among the patients being turned away—people with large high-risk aneurysms and people with high-risk carotid artery diseases and lesions.
In a normal world, these types of patients would be deemed “urgent” and receive surgeries, because death could be imminent if an aneurysm ruptured or an artery closed up. Dwayne recalled one patient ultimately had a life-changing heart attack.
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