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We investigated the following observations: (1) many patients who present with nonspecific chest pain in primary care show symptom persistence for 6 months, (2) many patients with nonspecific chest pain showed signs of overinvestigation, and (3) many patients with chronic chest pain were referred to mental health specialists.
Archives of Internal Medicine current issue Glombiewski 2010
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The authors note that "practitioners treating persons with chronic diseases should not attribute new neurologic signs or symptoms to existing conditions without careful consideration, but this must be balanced against overinvestigation."
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