An alert and oriented 69-year-old female patient complains of low, right-sided abdominal pain. She describes the pain as "knife-like" and states that it started suddenly 1 hour ago. Her only medical history is hypertension, for which she takes the medication Lisinopril. Which of these assessment findings shows that the EMT is appropriately assessing this patient given the chief complaint?
A) No trauma noted to the head
B) No pain on palpation to the chest
C) No deformity to the upper extremities
D) No abdominal guarding noted
D) No abdominal guarding noted
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