Cheaper option may not be a bargain

THE following two patients turned up at the emergency department of the same hospital in a space of several weeks, each in the throes of an acute heart attack. They chose different treatment options - one costing way more than the other - and emerged with vastly different outcomes.

The expensive option

Mr A arrived at the emergency centre with chest pain and signs of a major heart attack involving the main heart artery, which supplies the main pumping chamber of the heart.