Medical Problems: Chest Pain

OVERVIEW

Chest pain is one of the those chief complaints whose differential should arguably be mastered by most all trainees. Given how complicated the differential can become, the process of understanding chest pain may itself cause chest pain!

Chest pain is an important chief complaint in the realm of medicine! (source)
Chest pain is an important chief complaint in the realm of medicine! (source)
ORGANIZING THE DIFFERENTIAL

Differential diagnosis for chest pain: there are a few different ways that we can organize this.