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ast year, Mark Christian, 62, of Colonia, knew something was wrong. He’d long had high blood pressure, but recently he had begun to have dizzy spells and weakness. Mark went to his primary care physician, who did a nuclear stress test, put him on a Holter monitor (a portable device that measures heart activity) for a time and prescribed a new blood pressure medicine. During the week before Easter 2019,
THANKS TO TIMELY CARDIAC CARE, A COLONIA MAN IS HERE FOR HIS GRANDCHILDREN.
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he and his wife, Mary Jane, went to the supermarket one night to buy food for the family’s holiday dinner. Mark felt so lightheaded that he had to leave the supermarket and go sit in the car. He figured he simply had to wait for his new medicine to begin to take effect. Mary Jane Christian, RN, BSN, MS, wasn’t so sure. She works as Administrative Director of Compliant Documentation for the northern region of the RWJBarnabas
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