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Honestly, the fact that Dr. Gangi couldn't even understand the difference between a Type 1 vs Type 2 heart attack, and said, "You didn't have a type 2 M.I. because your coronary angiogram showed no blockages," when the entire point of a type 2 heart attack is that IT'S NOT CAUSED BY A BLOCKAGE (but from a imbalanced oxygen supply/demand), should send anyone considering seeing this doctor running for the hills! But if you need any more reasons to avoid Dr. Gangi (and probably save your life in the process), I've got you covered: I don't know what was worse; the medical gaslighting, the condescension, or that this person whom I've met only twice in my life had the audacity to say, "I think of you like a sister," in some weird attempt to manipulate me into trusting her horrible medical advice. Dr. Gangi told me that despite all of my abnormal EKGs, Echocardiograms, lab tests, symptoms, a probable bicuspid valve, confirmed LVH, Aortic Stenosis, 3/6 SEM murmur, cardiologist-confirmed type 2 Myocardial Infarction, positive nuclear stress test, and my week-long hospital stay... That somehow there was "nothing cardiac" about my case... She refused to listen to my concerns and kept making condescending comments about how I should "stay off the Internet," when I tried to advocate for myself and asked her to explain her logic regarding her denial of my type 2 heart attack. Like, I'm not out here looking at WebMD. I know how to interpret medical information from reliable sources (Mayo Clinic, John Hopkins, Harvard Medical, etc), but Dr. Gangi just treated me like I was an idiot. Then, when she listened to my heart, she magically "couldn't hear" my "3/6 SEM heart murmur" that every other doctor has noted, plain as day, for the last year and a half, including my PCP AND her residents both the week before and after my appointment with Dr. Gangi. *I've confirmed with multiple doctors that my murmur wouldn't just randomly disappear for a week.* I mean, If she genuinely couldn't hear it, that would be concerning inof-itself, but I have a strong feeling that she just claimed it was gone to get me out of my appointment faster. It was as though my case wasn't straightforward or typical enough for Dr. Gangi, so she just decided to tell me everything was normal/, instead of admitting she didn't know what was wrong; that because I didn't have a standard cause of my heart attacks, she didn't want to deal with my case. **Since my horrible appointment with Dr. Gangi, I have been hospitalized with a second heart attack, and I now have permanent damage (fixed perfusion) to my heart. I truly believe that this could have been prevented had Dr. Gangi actually TRIED to figure out what was happening, instead of negligently deciding nothing was wrong.** Dr. Gangi should not have a medical license, and I'm not her only patient to feel this way.