“Doc, I honestly cannot go to the ER,” a patient said to me. It’s a refrain I have heard often the past few weeks. “Doc, I honestly cannot go to the ER.”
It would be a lie to say I was surprised when my patient with chest pains answered my recommendation so bluntly. It’s a refrain I have heard often the past few weeks.
He is a diabetic, at high risk for having a myocardial infarction, and as I pleaded my case, trying to explain what I thought was best for his health, I found the phrases I invoked familiar as […]
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