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Yeah I did. I was in an all day meeting, when I started to get pains up and down my left arm. This went on for several hours, getting more severe. Eventually, mid morning, I drove myself to the large public hospital quite close by. I stood in line at Emergency. At my turn, I explained my symptoms, the nurse was instantly up out of her chair, grabbed me through the door and took me past the line into a treatment room. She stuck me into a chair and put me on oxygen straight away. Two nurses with a cart and a doctor immediately appeared. I was injected with something. This was happening really quickly. After a while I was admitted, put in an Emergency bed. I was electroded, connected up to all sorts of machinery, an IV was inserted, blood was taken, a full set of tests was ordered. After all day, they could find nothing. At about 11pm, after 12 hours in Emergency, a doctor has me doing a stress test, star jumps, in the Emergency Ward. They kept me in till about 1am, concluded I had some sort of virus and sent me home.
Its never happened again in 10 years, so they must have been correct. BTW, that all happened in a public hospital and cost nothing. I was very impressed, but quite embarrassed to have consumed so much resource over a "virus". The Med staff said, nevertheless, presenting to Hospital was the right thing to do- but I should have called an ambulance.
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