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The Boston Globe has a revealing article about a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine where patients thought that a heart stent would help prevent another heart attack. But doctors had only told patients that it would relieve future chest pain. How can such a communication disconnect still happen in this modern age of medicine? Read the full article, Study finds doctor-patient disconnect.

 

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