Health Management for Older Adults III - Early Evaluation of Patients with Chest Pain -- Conclusion

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If these observations are well documented in the chart, any physician should be as confident as I am about evaluating the patient further in an outpatient setting.

Legal action against physicians is always a concern, particularly if a cardiac event occurs in a patient who was not admitted to hospital.

Even if a cardiac event occurs in the patient, the physician who has done the above is not guilty of malpractice. Instead they will be practicing good medicine.