The reason why we are interested in the function of the heart and its cardiac output (CO) measures or troponin levels, is because of their connections to people's experiences of what professionals call myocardial infarction. As succinctly stated by Canguilhem many years ago: pathology comes ...
My doctor told me, “We’ll cycle another troponin, give you a treadmill stress test this afternoon, and get you out of here before sunset.” That all sounded good to me...until the next troponin came back even more elevated. They canceled my stress test—no need to bring on a hea...