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Q J Med 2002; 95: 489-490
© 2002 Association of Physicians

Coda

The art of questioning

John Launer

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A physician once saved my life with a question, or more precisely, with two questions.

I had been short of breath for several months. Because I had had some cardiac problems in the past—an episode of pericarditis seven years previously—I called my cardiologist. He thought it sounded like a slight worsening of my generally mild asthma, and reassured me. As the weeks passed, I had good days and bad days, and sometimes I worried more and sometimes less. At some point I organized a chest X-ray and an ECG for . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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