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SATURDAY, March 29 (HealthScoutNews) -- When Veronique Mastey had her second child, the baby's shallow breathing and lack of appetite alerted her that something was wrong. Mastey soon found out her daughter had a life-threatening heart abnormality called Tetralogy of Fallot. Her daughter, now 4, has had four heart surgeries to repair the defects, and her condition makes her prone to pneumonia and passing out from lack of blood to her lungs. Mastey and her husband have lost count of the nights they jumped out of bed, dressed, and rushed to the emergency room -- only to wait several hours to see a doctor. During one late-night trip, Mastey began to wonder if there could be a better way. In her native France, she remembered, doctors came to her home. So she decided to take some action on her own and founded SOS MD4U, one of a small but growing number of services that lets you pick up the phone and request that a doctor come to your home. SOS MED4U guarantees that a physician will arrive within an hour. 'The idea is to bring the old fashionedness back to reality,' says Mastey, whose company is based in Los Angeles. 'With my daughter, she did not always need to go to the emergency room. There were things that could have been done for her by a doctor at home...'
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