Shivering in a Hospital Gown

What's the real emergency?

“What brings you in today?” the nurse asked.

“I think I may have just had a mild heart attack.”

She typed my answer into the computer without looking over. I didn’t know whether to feel comforted or alarmed that her pace and mood were completely unchanged by my words. She stopped to clean her oversized glasses, and then asked for my date of birth.

I glance…