Can Your Doctor Read Your Heart Tests?

We often take for granted that after years in college and medical school that our doctors can actually read our charts and know how to treat us.  It isn’t their fault (well, not every time) as the information put before them is often up for interpretation.  Most medical conditions are not black and white issues with clear answers or solutions.

This post on Tech Science Review offers some information and advice that anyone, especially those with heart conditions, can use to determine if they are really in the right hands.  Doctors are humans, and humans make mistakes.  Make sure the mistakes aren’t made on you.

You have a burning chest pain and a doctor looks at a squiggly-lined graph to determine the cause. That graph, an electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG), can help the doctor decide whether you’re having a heart attack or an acid attack from last night’s spaghetti. Correct interpretation may prompt life-saving, emergency measures; incorrect interpretation may delay care with life-threatening consequences. Currently, there is no uniform way to teach doctors in training how to interpret an ECG or assess their competence in the interpretation.

Story continues at Tech Science Review about Heart Tests.

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