Two very different cases of atypical chest pain will prove instructive

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Two very different cases of atypical chest pain will prove instructive

Jonathan Bentley

Jonathan Bentley

older man, backache
I rang Arthur urgently but struggled to understand what he was saying as he could barely speak

Even though we teach students that common things occur commonly, the fine-print diagnoses lie in wait to trip us up, as these cases illustrate

I teach medical students. In itself, this is not news – many GPs do this. One thing that is news is medical students have, generally, not yet learned