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Volume 339:707 September 3, 1998 Number 10
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Off at the Races — A Graphic Patient History

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To the Editor: A 58-year-old avid rower was profoundly frustrated by his poor performance in the Grand Masters Singles race during Boston's 1997 Head of the Charles Regatta. While putting his scull up on the rack, he appeared ashen and morose to a fellow oarsman, who was a physician. The man said that he could not understand why at midrace he was 10 seconds behind a competitor he had easily beaten the month before. The physician took his pulse and then brought him to the emergency room at Mt. Auburn Hospital, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The man had been in excellent . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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