This year has been hell for people with chronic illnesses that are not COVID. Many of my doctors (specialists) have been totally MIA. They either don’t followup at all or meet with us for 5 minutes for a useless zoom call. Last fall I was out running in NH and chest pain that I’d had for years from my pacemaker began worsening intensely. I felt like I was having a heart attack. Since I hadn’t had any followup on my heart or pacemaker in months due to COVID, and the pain was so severe, I went to an ER. I expected them to just do an ECG but instead they did a COVID test, ultrasound, found a high d dimer, told me I was having a pulmonary embolism, rushed me into an angiogram, flipped out over my pacemaker rate, and then tried to pressure me into leaving by ambulance to Boston. I was terrified. I was alone. They were misdiagnosing my paced rhythm as an arrhythmia. I asked them repeatedly please call my cardiology office. They did but nobody responded……..for 11 hours. The ER als...