Nothing Lost in Translation
A special connection with a BIDMC staff member helped ease concerns about urgent pacemaker procedure. Moi Luong knew she wasn’t the only one with a racing heart during the COVID-19 pandemic, but something wasn’t right. She was exhausted, and it felt like her heart was skipping or jumping all over the place. It was keeping her up at night. Luong went to see her primary care physician, who sent her home with a monitor to check her heart activity for two weeks after her initial tests were inconclusive. When cardiologist Peter Zimetbaum, MD, read the results, he saw that Luong’s heart pause...