Interesting consultation with a patient who had had a stroke this week:
- So do you understand that the scan results show that you've had a stroke?
- Yes doctor, I understand that, I just dont understand why it happened.
- Well, you've had high blood pressure for a long time, you have an irregular heart beat and have been smoking 40 cigarettes a day for 40 years, all these things have probably contributed.
- Alright, but was it anything to do with my mother?
- Your mother? Did she have a stroke?
- No, she had a pacemaker.
- I see. Well sometimes things like high cholesterol can run in families and that can increase your risk of a stroke.
- Hmm. So will I get it then?
- High cholesterol? At the moment your cholesterol is within normal limits.
- No, my mother's pacemaker. Is that inherited?
- Not unless she left it in her will..
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