4. Clinical Case: Chest pain
In the following, we distinguish between the description of clinical details (in italics ) and our commentary.8
Scene: At home in the Northeastern U.S.A., at 08:00, a 54-year-old man is walking down the stairs to breakfast. He suffers sudden substernal chest pain radiating to his left shoulder and back. No previous history of chest pain. No previous chronic disease. His spouse immediately calls the local emergency number .