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About Those Skipped Heart Test Results

echocardiogram reveals 4 heart chambers - adapted from Wikimedia Commons

Harlem Hos­pital Center stands just three miles or so north of my home. I know the place from the outside glancing in, as you might upon exiting from the subway station just paces from its open doors. The structure seems like one chamber of its neighborhood’s heart; within a few long blocks’ radii you’ll find rhythms gen­erated in the Abyssinian Baptist Church; readings at the Schomburg Center and artery-​​clogging cuisine at the West 135th Street IHOP. So I was sad­dened to hear about the missed heart studies. Or should I say unmissed? No one noticed when nearly 4,000 cardiac tests went unchecked at the Harlem center,

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