Cultural Competence Case Presentation Chest Pain ( Cultural , Race )
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A 50 year old African American woman presents with chest pain. She states that the pain has been intermittent for two weeks. She has not seen a regular physician for some time because she lost her insurance when she changed jobs a year ago. She has occasionally gone to an ER or local clinics to get prescriptions for her anti-hypertensive medicine, hydrochlorothiazide. She visited your ER a week before and was sent home after having an EKG showing only non-specific changes and normal chest x-ray; no other tests were done.
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