Usually people are mortally afraid of some symptoms, of which chest pain happens to be one of the dreaded few. Before the corporate hospitals mushroomed in big places, what was being done by a common man? He was consulting a G.P or a physician & was investigated with usual protocol of common tests to differentiate whether it was cardiac or non-cardiac in origin. The most common tests were E.C.G, X-RAY chest, some blood tests & depending on the interpretability, a referral consultants help was being taken.
Let's take a glance at how the same situation has transformed after the Corporates have come in. Any emergency medical officer working in a government or private set up is repeatedly brainwashed by corporate marketing people that "a chest pain patient" is a potential angioplasty patient, which is at best" a half truth & worse than a lie ". If you are a common man in a big city & you…
