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Heart Attacks: A Serial Killer of Women

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the nation’s No.1 killer. A missed heart attack diagnosis is the most common form of medical malpractice, and women are its most common victims. CHD accounts for about 23 percent of all deaths in women.

Stereotypes based on gender affect the kind of medical treatment women with heart disease receive. Medicine is just catching up to the fact that women and men experience CHD differently and require different treatments. Medical malpractice cases based on failure to diagnose or treat a heart attack, particularly those involving women, are legally and medically challenging. Read the article as published in Trial News, January 2012.

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