This piece is inspired by my recent patient encounter here in the United States. Within the past week, I received a call from the Emergency Room to admit a 29-year-old African-American female whom, for the sake of this essay, I will call Keisha. Keisha presented with severe lower abdominal pain and was found to have a ridiculously high blood pressure, the type that will cause you to end up in the stroke unit. Her systolic blood pressure consistently was in the upper 200s. It turned…
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