Dr. Elizabeth Comen
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Much so that by the end, he wrote, these women do not die.
And I thought, well, there it is.
We are dying.
You said we don't die.
You didn't look into it.
You were the forefather of this whole field of cardiology.
And you've said it.
You've dismissed all these women as neurotic.
In the 19th century, we don't die, and here we are.
We are still dying, and it's the number one killer of women.
And that's why the legacy matters.
It matters to understand where it came from before we can really move it forward.
It can be totally different.
So, you know, classically is what we see in Hollywood.
These women present or men presenting with the elephant on the chest, the crushing chest pain.
But we should talk about that because it can be quite different.
It can be indigestion.
It can be fatigue.
It can be jaw pain.
It can be the left arm pain.