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  • Pumped-up Rush: My heart's fine

    01/02/2010 3:18:24 AM PST · by Scanian · 27 replies · 1,401+ views
    NY Post ^ | January 2, 2010 | AP
    HONOLULU -- Rush Limbaugh said yesterday that tests found nothing wrong with his heart after chest pains hospitalized him earlier this week. The conservative radio star said at a Honolulu news conference that he was being released from The Queen's Medical Center, where he was rushed Wednesday during a vacation. Doctors said he did not have a heart attack or heart disease. "The pain was real, and they don't know what caused it," Limbaugh said. Asked whether he was taking painkillers, he said no. His medical problems have attracted attention in the past. In 2003, he acknowledged an addiction to...
  • Rush Limbaugh taken to Hawaii hospital: report

    12/31/2009 2:54:31 AM PST · by Scanian · 11 replies · 1,194+ views
    NY Post ^ | December 30, 2009 | AP
    Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was taken to a hospital with chest pains on Wednesday, a Honolulu television station reported. Paramedics responded to a call at 2:41 p.m. from the Kahala Hotel and Resort where Limbaugh is vacationing, KITV reported. The station, citing unnamed sources, said Limbaugh was taken to The Queens Medical Center in serious condition. Queens spokeswoman N. Makana Shook says the hospital is unable to comment on the report. Emergency Medical Services spokesman Bryan Cheplic said paramedics took a male of unknown age to an area hospital from the Kahala Hotel and Resort. He said...
  • Heart Attack Patient Dies In ER Waiting Room- Ruled a Homicide

    09/16/2006 9:25:30 PM PDT · by 60Gunner · 319 replies · 10,324+ views
    Associated Press ^ | 9/16/06 | 60 Gunner
    Being an ER nurse, I tend to fasten my attention onto cases such as this one. According the the AP story, a 49-year-old woman came into the ER complaining of chest pain, nausea, and shortness of breath. (Okay, all you nurses out there: pipe down and let the laypersons catch up.) She is triaged, classified "semi-emergent," and instructed to wait for her name to be called. Two hours later, when the woman's turn to be seen had arrived and her name was called by the triage nurse, the woman did not respond, The nurse approached the woman and found her...