A cardiac crisis as that sense of impending doom keeps recurring

I HOPE you will forgive any inconsistencies in these comments, but I fear I am having a heart attack. This is hardly a subject for levity. I don't happen to have at my numbing fingertips the precise figures for Scotland's annual death toll from myocardial infarction, but I am sure it is far higher than anyone would wish. A statistic I grasped personally when I read the phrase on my father's death certificate.

But heart attacks don't just happen to men - as a women's magazine has trumpeted this month. The gender gap snaps shut at the menopause, apparently. Yet there is a persistent discrepancy between the treatment of male and female patients in the red-al...