How to Say No and Mean It

A few years ago, I visited an emergency room for sudden onset chest pain, a deep ache in the center of my chest. I had not experienced this before, and I was worried. Within minutes, a nurse whisked me into an examination room. The doctor was young and confident, with a no-nonsense manner. She listened to my heart and my breathing, then conducted an electrocardiogram, noting nothing out of the ordinary. I was relieved and told her that my pain was subsiding. I expected her to discharge me, but instead, she said that I had to have a CT scan before she could let me leave…

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