Ask the Doctors: 10/04

Is there any way you can tell whether youre having a heart attack by measuring your own blood pressure, or taking your temperature? Its a good idea to have a digital thermometer in every house to measure body temperature. Its also a good idea for people with hypertension to have a monitoring device at home so they can track blood pressures over time. But neither device would be particularly useful in self-diagnosing a heart attack. The…