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“The cardiologist called it anxiety. The next cardiologist called it anxiety. The third cardiologist ran a Holter monitor and it was AFib. I am sixty-one. I had said the word palpitations three times in fifteen months. I would like the first cardiologist to know that anxiety was, in the end, an accurate diagnosis. I was anxious because I was in AFib.”