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past year, and at least five in the last five days.
"Heart attack is the biggest killer in the country," she
said. She saw nothing unusual in the number of deaths.
But he told her that these heart collapse victims had
symptoms that were more like those of viral infections:
fevers, sweating, chills, malaise, headache, prostration.
Then all of a sudden their hearts gave out. The old
doctor jabbed his finger through shelves of smoke
stacked in the cooled air and cursed whatever was
killing his patients. Finally he nestled his chins down on
his chest and looked up at Ruth. "I never made any
claims about diagnostic know-how," he grumbled.
"Was always the sort of fellow that just did the best I
could for the patient there in front of me. But I've seen
enough to know when something's way out of kilter.
This Center for Disease place of yours is out of my
league, I'm the first to admit it, so you tell me what you
make of all this. Because I've got some good people
I'm seeing right now running these flu-type symptoms
and crap showing up on lung X rays. So when I start
picking up bad heart murmurs on them, hell's bells, I get
scared I'm going to lose them, too."