The guest I had
seen the previous day was found dead, I learned from the manager of a downtown
hotel.
A hotel doctor’s
worst nightmare is a patient dying in the room after he leaves. This has never
happened to me although several died soon after I sent them to the hospital. It
turned out that this guest was not my first.
She was an elderly
lady complaining of palpitations whom I had seen the night before. On my
examination, her heart was beating too rapidly, so I took her to an emergency
room. After the usual delays, the emergency room doctor found the heart beating
normally, so he told her to mention it to her family doctor and then sent her
back to the hotel where she died.
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