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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
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Subject: new source of Chest Pain
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Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 12:46:18 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 20 12:46:18 1986
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	A new source of chest pain that could be called "Beeper Battery 
Burning" is described by 4 physicians from Chicago's Rush-Presbyterian-
St Luke's Medical Center in a letter published in the New England Journal
of Medicine,
	The four describe a 36-yr old male intern who "experienced an intense,
burning pain in the left part of the chest" while running to aid in a
resuscitation of a coronary case. The doctor felt his chest and noticed his 
shirt pocket was warm and producing smoke.
	"On further investigation," said Dr. Jane Ramp and colleagues, "he
discovered that the reserve battery for his beeper was resting between two
metallic pens and, by completing a circuit , was generating heat. Removal of
the battery relieved the chest pain."

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				Craig Werner
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           "... you can do anything you want, but not everything you want"