A 38-year-old patient presents to the clinic complaining of…
A 38-year-old patient presents to the clinic complaining of chest pain. The patient describes the pain as occurring in the evening, but occasionally during the daytime hours. The patient tells the nurse practitioner that the pain gets better when they eat. The nurse practitioner asks a few questions and determines that the patient’s pain is in the infradiaphragmatic and epigastric region and does not get better or worse with activity. The nurse practitioner determines that the most likely type of chest pain this patient is feeling is…