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The diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of patients with various heart ailments falls in great part to the family physician, with consultation or referral—when necessary—with the cardiologist.

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  1. V. Franklin Colon
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  1. Department of Family and Community Medicine Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, 300 South Hawthorne Road, 27103, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

    Robert B. Taylor M.D.

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Colon, V.F., Forker, A.D., Eliot, R.S. (1978). Cardiovascular Medicine. In: Taylor, R.B. (eds) Family Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3999-2_50

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