Would you recognise the symptoms of a heart attack?
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Would you recognise the symptoms of a heart attack?

Jaye Ryan Senior lecturer in children and young people’s health, Birmingham City University

Clinicians suggested my condition was anxiety – here’s what I want colleagues to know about listening to what patients, notably women, tell them in words or body language

Having had a career in nursing since the mid-1980s and the role of a senior lecturer for 20 years, I thought I would recognise a heart attack if I saw one. Until it happened to me.

Nursing Standard. 39, 3, 67-68. doi: 10.7748/ns.39.3.67.s22

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