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The case study You be the Judge, presented at the end of Chapter
5 (Guido, p. 65)
The patient had an apparent cardiac event at home involving
chest pain radiating into his left arm and accompanied by
diaphoresis and shortness of breath. He phoned the clinic asking
for a next-day appointment, telling the nurse he was having pain
and numbness in both his arms and wrists, which he believed was
caused by computer use at work. The next day he came to the clinic
and told the admitting nurse that he had had chest pain, but none
recently. He repeated this denial of recent chest pain to the nurse
practitioner. The nurse practitioner ordered an electrocardiogram
and chest x-ray, bot of which were seen as within normal findings.
He returned to work the following day, collapsed, and was taken by
ambulance to the nearest emergency center. Cardiac catheterization
was not successful, and the patient subsequently died. His family
filed a wrongful death action, blaming the clinic nurses for his
demise.
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