Chest pain is just a description of a painful body part that can have many causes. So where should I go as a patient with chest pain? 1. If the chest pain is acute and appears to be severe, you should go to the respiratory department or cardiothoracic surgery department of cardiology. If it is night and holidays to go to the emergency department. The physicians of these two departments will make a clear diagnosis for you. If there is trauma with rib fracture, you can go to the thoracic surgery department first. 2. If you have chronic pain for more than three months, you can go to the pain department. The chronic chest pain consulted by the pain department includes herpes zoster chest pain, intercostal neuralgia, costochondritis pain, chest pain caused by various tumors, and chronic pleurisy pleural thickening pain. Some types of angina pectoris that are not effectively treated in cardiology can also be solved by using the methods of pain medicine. 3. Chronic chest pain for more than three months, chest pain of unknown diagnosis. These chest pains may be caused by the irritation of the thoracic nerves by degenerative thoracic spine lesions. There are some clearly associated changes on MRI and CT of the thoracic spine. Pain can be induced in the thoracic spine as well as on paravertebral compression and percussion.