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Nurse:What brings you to the emergency room? Where don't you feel well?
Patient:Nurse, I suddenly developed a sharp pain in my upper abdomen.
N:When did it begin?
P:About three hours ago.
N:Have you ever had any pains like this before?
P:No, never.
N:What kind of pain is it? Intermittent or persistent?
P:It's a kind of sharp. It was off and on, but now it's all the time.
N:Do you feel nausea?
P:I feel like vomiting.
N:Let's take a white blood count and a blood amylase test, a kind of test for acute pancreatitis.
P:Well, thank you. |