Chest pain: Cardiac causes always first

October 4, 2007

A patient presents with chest pain, and GI causes were assumed first. Bad, and expensive, move.



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{ 2 comments }

1 Anonymous October 4, 2007 at 3:54 pm

Enough money to make several generations wealthy.

Could Balzac have been right?

Let’s hope for a rational appeals court reversal.

2 Anonymous October 4, 2007 at 11:01 pm

“A cardiogram performed on him in a resting position showed abnormalities in his heart.”

What does this mean? An EKG? An echo?

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