Nurse Alone in Clinic Treats Himself for Heart Attack
A 44-year-old nurse who works in a remote medical facility in Coral Bay, Australia, was the only person on duty when he began to experience heart attack symptoms and knew he would have to attempt his own treatment. His story, told by Felicity Lee, MB, from the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Nedlands, Western Australia, and colleagues, appears in a March 8 letter to the editor in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM ).
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