Denial and embarrassment Denial may be yet another reason heart attack patients delay going to the hospital. Robertson relates a story of a healthcare professional who started having chest pain a week after hiking, yet waited 8 hours after suffering a full-blown heart attack to seek help. We call it denial, but it. If I don. Cannon says embarrassment is also another factor.
People are very reticent to trigger that kind of alarm,. .
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