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How to tell muscular skeletal pain from cardiac cause?
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The finger test: Cardiac pain is diffuse and likely to be associated with sweating nausea vomiting and fatigue. Ms pain is well localized. If you can point to the painful spot using 1 finger you probably do not have heart related chest pain.
Answered 6/10/2013
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