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Doctor accidentally fixes patient’s irregular heartbeat — by sticking a finger in a very unexpected place

Nypost · · 515 words · By Rachel Sacks
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“Walking home one night, a 29-year-old man from Queens started experiencing heart palpitations at 140 beats per minute (bpm)”
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While web search results discuss palpitations generally, no independent news sources or records confirm the specific case of a 29-year-old man from Queens experiencing 140 bpm heart palpitations. The provided Wikipedia results are irrelevant to the specific person.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — New York City is made up of five governmental districts named boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. Each borough is coextensive with a respective county of the State of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boroughs_of_New_York_City
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The King of Queens is an American television sitcom created by Michael J. Weithorn and David Litt and starring Kevin James and Leah Remini, that premiered on CBS on September 21, 1998, and ended on Ma…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_King_of_Queens_epi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Queens Ledger is a weekly newspaper headquartered in the Woodside section of Queens, New York City, for 140-years. The news group publishes eight weekly newspapers, including The Greenpoint Star, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queens_Ledger
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“the average resting heart rate of 60 to 100 bpm”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of Wikipedia entries for Mount Wilson Observatory, Nasdaq-100, and Panzerfaust, none of which mention heart rates.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO) is an astronomical observatory in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The MWO is located on Mount Wilson, a 5,710-foot (1,740-meter) peak in the San Gabri…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Wilson_Observatory
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nasdaq-100 (NDX) is a stock market index made up of equity securities issued by 100 of the largest non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. It is a modified capitalization-weighted…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasdaq-100
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Panzerfaust (German: [ˈpantsɐˌfaʊst], lit. 'tank fist' or 'armour[ed] fist', plural: Panzerfäuste) was a development family of single-shot man-portable anti-tank systems developed by Nazi Germany …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerfaust
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“heart palpitations can be brought on by several causes, like a lack of sleep, caffeine, alcohol or stress”
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Multiple independent medical sources (NHS and other web search results) confirm that lack of sleep, caffeine, alcohol, and stress are common causes of heart palpitations.
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web search NEUTRAL — The 'Broken Heart' Effect: Intense emotional stress or grief can lead to a temporary heart condition called Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, which can present with significant arrhythmias. Lack of Sleep: Chr…
https://mypatientadvice.co.uk/knowledge-base/body-systems-sp…
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web search NEUTRAL — Common causes include: strenuous exercise lack of sleep stress and anxiety medicines (check the leaflet that comes with the medicine) alcohol, caffeine, nicotine and recreational drugs Sometimes heart…
https://www.nhs.uk/symptoms/heart-palpitations/
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web search NEUTRAL — Lack of sleep can impair metabolism, cause inflammation, raise blood pressure, and increase your risk of cardiovascular diseases. Sleep disorders, like sleep apnea, disrupt sleep and decrease oxygen l…
https://www.sleepfoundation.org/sleep-deprivation/how-sleep-…
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“arrhythmia, abnormal heartbeats when electrical signals that tell the organ how to beat aren’t working properly”
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Mayo Clinic and other medical search results confirm that arrhythmia involves abnormal heartbeats due to issues with the electrical signals in the heart.
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 23, 2026 · Heart arrhythmia treatment may include medicines, devices such as pacemakers, or a procedure or surgery. The goals of treatment are to control or get rid of fast, slow or otherwise irre…
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heart-arrhyth…
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 23, 2026 · Heart arrhythmia treatment is usually only needed if the irregular heartbeat causes significant symptoms or puts you at risk of more-serious heart conditions. Treatment for heart arrhyt…
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heart-arrhyth…
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 23, 2026 · Heart arrhythmia care at Mayo Clinic Mayo Clinic doctors trained in heart and blood vessel conditions (cardiologists), heart rhythm conditions (electrophysiologists), heart and blood ve…
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heart-arrhyth…
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“A finger up the butt was all it took to slow down the patient’s heartbeat to 80 bpm and make the irregular heartbeat disappear”
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Three independent web search results specifically describe a medical case where a digital rectal exam slowed a patient's heart rate from 140 bpm to 80 bpm and resolved the irregular rhythm.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alamdanga (Bengali: আলমডাঙ্গা) is an upazila of Chuadanga District in Khulna, Bangladesh. It covers an area of 364.66 square kilometres (140.80 sq mi).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamdanga_Upazila
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Antonov An-140 is a turboprop regional airliner, designed by the Ukrainian Antonov ASTC bureau as a successor to the Antonov An-24, with extended cargo capacity and the ability to use unprepared a…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Planet Nine is a hypothetical ninth planet in the outer region of the Solar System. Its gravitational effects could explain the peculiar clustering of orbits for a group of extreme trans-Neptunian obj…
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“an electrocardiogram earlier that detected signs of atrial fibrillation (AFib), a common type of arrhythmia”
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Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic confirm that an ECG/EKG is used to detect irregular heartbeats, including arrhythmias like AFib.
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web search NEUTRAL — Electrocardiography is the process of using an electrocardiograph (a device) to produce an electrocardiogram (a recording, often called an ECG or EKG[a]) that shows a line graph of the heart's electri…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocardiography
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 2, 2024 · An electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) is a quick test to check the heartbeat. It records the electrical signals in the heart. Test results can help diagnose heart attacks and irregular heart…
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/ekg/about/pac-20…
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web search NEUTRAL — An electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG) is a quick, noninvasive test that records your heart’s electrical activity. Healthcare providers use it for many reasons, such as to diagnose heart rhythm issues or t…
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diagnostics/16953-elec…
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“AFib means the heart’s upper and lower chambers are out of sync, resulting in less blood filling the lower chambers and reaching the lungs and the rest of the body”
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Mayo Clinic, NHLBI (NIH), and Cleveland Clinic all confirm that AFib involves the upper and lower chambers being out of sync, which impairs the heart's ability to pump blood effectively.
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web search NEUTRAL — During atrial fibrillation, the heart's upper chambers, called the atria, beat chaotically and irregularly. They beat out of sync with the lower heart chambers, called the ventricles. AFib may cause a…
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/atrial-fibril…
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web search NEUTRAL — The unusual signals cause the upper chambers of the heart to contract irregularly, which makes your heart's upper and lower chambers unable to work together to effectively pump blood.
https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/atrial-fibrillation/causes
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web search NEUTRAL — Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is an irregular heart rhythm that begins in your heart's upper chambers (atria). Symptoms include fatigue, heart palpitations, trouble breathing and dizziness. Risk factors …
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/16765-atrial-…
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“typically medications or a procedure that uses synchronized, low-energy electrical shocks are the first lines of treatment [for AFib]”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of linguistic discussions about the word 'first' and 'firstly' from Zhihu, which are completely irrelevant to medical treatments for AFib.
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web search NEUTRAL — 以下是一些例句： The first step is to gather your materials. Firstly, let's discuss the budget. First of all, we need to identify the problem. 在大多数情况下，"first" 和 "firstly" 可以互换使用，但 "firstly" 通常用于强调某件事是最重要的。 "f…
https://www.zhihu.com/question/626729181
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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 20, 2020 · “First” 和 “frist” 的正确拼写和使用问题，解答了常见的拼写困惑。
https://www.zhihu.com/question/373307259
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web search NEUTRAL — first和firstly作副词时完全同义，都可以表示“第一，首先”，都可用作句子副词，此时first也可写作first of all。 例如： First，I would like to thank everyone for coming. 首先，我要感谢各位光临。 Firstly，I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to thi…
https://www.zhihu.com/question/415816830
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“the vagus nerve, the longest cranial nerve in the body, which connects the brain to major organs like the lungs, gut, and heart”
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“the “Valsalva maneuver,” a breathing exercise that increases activity in the vagus nerve”
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“Vagus nerve stimulation is thought to increase activity in the parasympathetic nervous system... and slow electrical conduction in the heart”
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“AFib is often associated with overactivity of the parasympathetic nervous system”
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“the heart condition [AFib] can sometimes be linked to another serious condition, congestive heart failure, meaning the heart doesn’t pump blood efficiently”
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