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The flutter of an aching heart

Silk, Hugh
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2023-02-23
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Introduction: I do not have an original offering for this week. In honour of February being American Heart Month, I offer up a story I wrote 12 years ago about an incident in my early years fresh out of residency in private practice. Heart disease is complicated. We do so many "rule outs" proving that a person did not have a heart attack and then we send them on their way. While true heart disease is incredibly prevalent and serious, so too are the many other things that break our hearts. This story is about this latter kind of heart disease.

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Silk H. (2011 Fall). The flutter of an aching heart. Hektoen International Journal. https://hekint.org/2017/01/29/the-flutter-of-an-aching-heart/.

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This story was originally published in 2011 in Hektoen International and available at https://hekint.org/2017/01/29/the-flutter-of-an-aching-heart/.

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Copyright © 2011 Silk. Posted as allowed by the publisher's submission instructions at https://hekint.org/submission-instructions/.
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