The intern on the phone said: “We’ve got this kid down in emergency with no blood
pressure, and he’s sitting here talking to us like nothing is wrong.” It was 1973,
and I was a cardiology fellow at Emory University in Atlanta, covering the acute cardiac
units that evening at Grady Memorial Hospital.
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Publication history
Published online: April 13, 2020
Accepted:
September 19,
2019
Received:
September 13,
2019
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