First Contact

True patient encounter

Me: "So I hear you've been having some chest pain?"
Patient: "mmmm"
Me: "Can you point to where it is for me?"
::patient points to her breast::
Me: "So is the pain in your breast or under your breast?"
Patient: "No, it's like, on the skin, like."
Me: "So your breast is what is hurting?"
Patient: "No, it's my chest."
Me: "Ok, so it's your chest, but the pain is on the skin of the breast? And not under the breast?"
Patient: "Mmmm, it's chest pain, like I said."
Me: ::blink:: "Ok. Chest pain it is then."