A New Syndrome
September 10th, 2004
Filed under: Medicine, Politics
In the past week, I’ve seen more patients than usual complaining of chest pain. They’ve all told me that they are concerned about their health because of “what happened to President Clinton.” It’s not that these patients are hypochondriacs; rather they have finally decided to be evaluated for chest pains that have been going on for weeks or months. At least two of these patients had bad stress test results and needed a further work-up by cardiologists. My partner and colleagues at the hospital have seen the same jump in patients complaining of chest pain.
Apparently we are not the only doctors seeing this; the Associated Press is calling it the “Clinton Syndrome.”
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