Word: chest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pull it from your chest...
AWAKING EARLY ONE MORNING WITH A tight, nauseated feeling, Catherine McCamey, a retired Washington postal clerk, took two antacid tablets and tried to fall back asleep. But when the tightness in her chest turned to pain, she took a cab to the hospital. There doctors told her that she had suffered a heart attack and that four of her coronary arteries were blocked, and she had to undergo bypass surgery. Two years later McCamey, now 64, remembers her bewilderment over the incident. "I was really shocked," she says. "I thought it was mostly men who suffered heart attacks...
...bronchitis. Women heart patients charge that doctors often fail to respond with the same alacrity to their cardiac symptoms as to those of male patients. Dr. Peter Jones of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, agrees. "If a young woman under 60 came into an emergency room with chest pains," he says, "she would not be taken seriously as a heart attack patient." Loyola's Malloy suggests that women must be more assertive about their heart concerns. "If you have unexplained chest pains," she says, "start with a good internist or cardiologist and pursue it until you're satisfied...
...explains Dr. Gerald Pohost, "unless it is crystal clear the woman has heart disease." Pohost, director of the division of cardiovascular disease at the University of Alabama Medical Center, thinks that the high rate of EKG errors may result partly from the placement of electrodes on a woman's chest -- more difficult to do because of the female anatomy...
...know him well. "He was like a friend," she explains, though his chest hair still bothered her. "It was too human...