Granta 111: Going Back
Design by Michael Salu in collaboration
with St Bride Printing Library
Granta 112: Pakistan
Artwork in collaboration with Islam Gull
(Karachi Truck artist)
Granta 113: Best of Young
Spanish Language Novelists
Design by Michael Salu
Fiction
HUFFINGTON
09.23.12
ology service.
“So?” I said.
“So he’s also got a history. Angioplasty about ten years ago, no
definite history of MI. You can’t really read his EKG because he’s got a
left bundle, no old strips so I don’t
know if it’s new.”
We were down to business.
“So I rule him out.”
“You rule him out. Ortho says
they’ll follow with you.”
“Lovely. And once I rule him
out?”
“Ortho says they’ll follow with
you.”
I said something unpleasant. The
MAO understood. “Sucks, I know,
but there you are.”
And there I was, down in the
ER on a Sunday afternoon, turning over the stack of papers that
John Mongay had generated over
his six hours in the ED. There was
a sheaf of EKGs covered with bizarre ectopic beats, through which
occasionally emerged a stretch
of normal sinus rhythm, enough
to see that there was, indeed, a
left bundle branch block, and not
much else. The heart has several
bundles, cables in its internal
wiring. When some disease process disrupts a bundle, the result
is an EKG too distorted to answer