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prescription. The doctor has to worry about other vital
disorders. Such as murmuring hearts that go lub-dubdub,
lub-dub-dub. Such as heart block, heart arrest,
heart attack, heart failure. Guardian of the human heart
by which we live, Dr. Scaper must be on the watch for
myocarditis, pericarditis, bacterial endocarditis,
arrhythmia, thromboembolism, coronary occlusion,
angina pectoris arteriosclerosis, rheumatic valvular
disease, mural thrombi, atrioventricular nodals,
hypertension, and syphilis of the heart. It is, he says, too
much work for a deaf old man.
"Hell's bells, we don't know what we're doing
anyhow," Scaper had confessed to Window Abernathy.
"Coronary X rays are pretty dangerous, and the damn
things don't show up small lesions anyhow.
Look here, 40 percent of myocardial infarctions (it
just means heart attack, like coronary thrombosis
means an artery block lousing you up ), 40 percent of
coronaries fail to cause symptoms. Somebody gets
arrhythmia, blood supply drops, they go into shock, first
thing you know the poor bastard's dead. Less than half
even get to the hospital. And maybe there were no