Yes, good advice. The backstory here is, I got a deferred medical certificate and went for an echocardiogram to resolve it, sent it to the FAA, after a few months they cleared me and issued the darned medical. That was $70,000 in lost wages later. This should never have happened. I am a fit 50 year old able to run miles at a time in summer heat without getting winded, no prior health issues, no family history, nothing. In the FAA aviation medical system you are guilty until proven innocent. That's the way it should be for public good, but the problem is how many GPs really do not have the skill required to evaluate an abnormal ECG trace. Not their fault as ECG traces are both highly complex and inconclusive. But that's what you're up against when you get anything close to an abnormal trace.

I was thinking to avert the whole problem by going to a better AME in the first place. I nearly quit flying because of nothing, as the echocardiogram later pointed out. Not to mention how emotionally traumatic the deferral was.

Thanks.