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BECOMING A PHYSICIAN Previous Volume 354:548-551 February 9, 2006 Number 6 Next

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One afternoon, at the beginning of my first clinical clerkship in internal medicine, my team was called to the intensive care unit. A patient, whom I'll call Mr. Abbott, had just been admitted with excruciating chest pain that had started a few hours earlier. He was in his early 50s, extensively tattooed, just the sort of tough I wouldn't want to meet alone in a parking lot at night — but right then he was whimpering. He kept stroking his sternum up and down, as if trying to rub the pain away. It was obvious that he was having an . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Jauhar is the director of the Heart Failure Program, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, N.Y., and an assistant professor of medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, N.Y.

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