GP censured for sending patient with pounding heart home, not to hospital

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GP censured for sending patient with pounding heart home, not to hospital

Keira Louise
Stephenson
Heart rate
The patient’s sinus tachycardia around 158bpm was a symptom that needed more investigation
A GP who sent a 42-year-old woman with a pounding heart home, where she died less than 24 hours later, breached the patient code of rights. The wom