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Crushing Chest Pain: A Missed Opportunity.
Graber M. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. January 2004.
A patient with chest pain is incorrectly diagnosed as having had a myocardial infarction. Although physicians eventually realize the patient had an aortic dissection, it is too late. The patient dies
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