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This is an 82 yr old woman I saw in the ER today. Came in for an ingrown pubic hair–of all things–and received a cautionary chest x-ray just as she was heading out the door (long story) and was incidentally found to have a widened mediastinum (one of the things to look for on a chest [...]
If you are looking for a good book from which to learn how to read EKGs, I’ve been told the standard recommended text is “Rapid Interpretation of EKG’s” by Dale Dubin. I have never used it but have heard good things about it from everyone from medical students to residents to attending physicians.
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You would think that the exclamation point in the title reflects the great benefits of vitamins E and C in decreasing peoples’ risk of cardiovascular events, including heart attack and stroke as well as dying from these events. But sure of enough no, that doesn’t appear to be the case.
The results of a randomized [...]
According to a study in the Nov. 6 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (PM Ridker et al), healthy men and women with normal cholesterol levels may significantly reduce their risk of developing or dying from heart disease (including chest pain, coronary bypass grafting or stenting), heart attacks and stroke by taking a crestor, a member of the [...]
