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I woke up Friday morning w/ a very sore left shoulder. I tried stretching it, but my left chest hurt too. Isn't pain on one side a sign of a heart attack? Chest pain, arm/shoulder pain, and my breathing is pretty shallow now that I think about it, but I don't think I'm having a heart attack because that'd be terribly inconvenient. But it'd also be very dumb if I died cause I didn't go to the ER. So I get my phone to call an Uber, when I suddenly feel very dizzy and nauseous. My wife is on a video call w/ a client, and I tell her: "Baby?" "Baby?" "Baby?" She's probably annoyed at me interrupting; I need to escalate "I think I'm having a heart attack" "I think my husband is having a heart attack"[1] I call 911[2] "911. This call is being recorded. What’s your emergency?" "I think I'm having a heart attack" They ask for my address, my symptoms, say the ambulance is on the way. After a few minutes, I heard an ambulance, which is weird to realize Oh, that ambulance is for me. I've broken o

x Hospitalization: A Review — LessWrong Practical Frontpage 2025 Top Fifty: 8 % 380 Hospitalization: A Review by Logan Riggs 9th Oct 2025 11 min read 21 380 I woke up Friday morning w/ a very sore left shoulder. I tried stretching it, but my left chest hurt too. Isn't pain on one side a sign of a heart attack? Chest pain, arm/shoulder pain, and my breathing is pretty shallow now that I think about it, but I don't think I'm having a heart attack because that'd be terribly inconvenient. But it'd also be very dumb if I died cause I didn't go to the ER. So I get my phone to call an Uber, when I su

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