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What is the difference between a cardiologist and a cardio-thoracic surgeon? Who usually performs an angiogram procedure?

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What is the difference between a cardiologist and a cardio-thoracic surgeon? Who usually performs an angiogram procedure?

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Cardiologists are physicians who specialize in diagnosing and treating heart diseases. A cardiac surgeon does heart surgeries. A thoracic surgeon does surgery of the chest, other than the heart. These two are separate specialties. A cardiothoracic surgeon can do both the heart and chest surgeries.