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by akrasia
4247 days ago
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Interesting, didn't sound like an ordinary nurse. Sorry if I came off somewhat arrogant in my earlier post.
Was she acting as a nurse or NP when she was taking care of you? The radiologist deserves some credit too in my opinion as they are the one to interpret the study. It is easy to include aortic dissection in differential along with other things that could kill you quickly (e.g. MI, pulm embolism, pneumothorax, etc ...) but harder to make the definitive diagnosis. Glad you made it.
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I only trust arrogant & unapproachable doctors. This parody couldn't be truer: http://www.theonion.com/articles/doctor-has-troubling-amount...
>> Was she acting as a nurse or NP when she was taking care of you?
Don't know which one, I was focused on myself :). And definitely don't know other things you talked about (other than MI).
Well before I was scanned, she said suspected dissection based on pulses and some other monitors. Then the scan confirmed it. My 2 cardiologists (personal and fd ones) both say I'm lucky she was there.