Performing stable angina pectoris: An ethnographic study
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Performing stable angina pectoris: an ethnographic study.
Symptoms play a crucial part in the formulation of medical diagnoses, yet the construction and interpretation of symptom narratives is not well understood. The diagnosis of angina is largely based on symptoms, but a substantial minority of patients diagnosed with "non-cardiac" chest pain go on to have a heart attack. In this ethnographic study our aims were to understand: (1) how the patients' ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Science & Medicine
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0277-9536
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.12.010