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Helen Minetti: Interview

Mrs. Minetti says she had been feeling relatively well lately, until the day of admission, when she noted the acute onset of dyspnea in the morning.

This progressed throughout the day and was associated with pain in her right chest that increased throughout the day and was associated with pain in her right chest that increased upon inspiration, so she came to the Yale E.R.

She denies fever, cough, headache, abdominal pain, back pain, or light headedness. Her medications include insulin and a calcium channel blocker.


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