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I debated whether to tell this story for obvious reasons, but it is amusing.
When I was getting my paramedic cert, I observed a cardiologist doing a cardiac catheterization. The patient walked, waddled really, into the room and flopped onto the table. He was in his late 50's, had the bright red face of a heavy drinker, was about 100lbs overweight, and the stench of tobacco he brought in with him permeated the lab long after he left. His supine blood pressure, after resting on the table for almost 10 minutes, was 200/115.
The doc said he had the largest, cleanest, most supple coronary arteries he'd ever seen in a patient over 55.
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