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niyad

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4. Back in the early 80's, a 52 year old woman I knew went to her dr.
Fri May 10, 2024, 09:14 AM
May 2024

for her annual checkup. Didn't smoke, drank a little, thin. Dr. pronounced her in excellent health. She flew home several days later to put her mother in a nursing home. Woke up with chest pains, dead of a massive coronary minutes later. What did her dr. miss? We know from studies that heart attacks kill more women than breast cancer does, we know the symptoms are different, and we know doctors tend to overlook or discredit women's symptoms. Did her dr. miss something? Ignore something? I have no answers.

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