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(By Eric Berger for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

When Tom Becker was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat in March 2020, the 60-year-old EMS helicopter pilot from Washington, Missouri, worried he would never fly again.<\/p>\n

But his cardiologist, Dr. Christopher Allen, had served in the Air Force and knew aviation physiology. So Becker felt reassured when Allen told him he didn\u2019t expect any problems, because Becker was still fairly young.\u00a0 Continue reading the article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n

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