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Mashup Score: 0Why won’t doctors believe women? - 1 year(s) ago
The reality: as soon as a woman having a heart attack is unlucky enough to initially have “normal”-looking diagnostic test results, she can reasonably expect that her healthcare profess…
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Mashup Score: 2Sharing our health struggles: too much, or not enough? - 1 year(s) ago
Sometimes “Fine, thanks!” is a good-enough response to “How are you?” But Harvard’s Dr. Robert Waldinger now believes it’s better to share our health struggles w…
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"How are you?" is a question some of us struggle to answer. A rumination by Carolyn Thomas, @HeartSisters https://t.co/V9OxgYBSdM
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Mashup Score: 7
This pioneer cardiologist published more research papers in her 80s than most cardiologists publish in their lifetime.
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RT @HeartSisters: When male and female heart patients play the same game, but with different rules https://t.co/DYrw0yYdrC
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Mashup Score: 14Must women bring a man along to help doctors believe us? - 2 year(s) ago
Three books, three authors, one big question: What is it about female heart patients that makes so many male doctors treat them differently than male patients?
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RT @HeartSisters: Must women bring a man along to help doctors believe us? https://t.co/2CxVRkYHsQ
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Mashup Score: 1How kids cope when a parent has a heart attack - 2 year(s) ago
“Somehow, seeing Jon through our children’s eyes made it harder for me to cope”, writes Jan Oldenburg about her husband’s cardiac crisis.
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RT @HeartSisters: How kids cope when a parent has a catastrophic heart attack https://t.co/PkPLrZqH9z Thanks to @janoldenburg for sharing…
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Mashup Score: 1“Never been sick in my life” – so how could she have a stroke? - 2 year(s) ago
Dina survived a stroke – just two weeks after her 41st birthday. Listen to her tell the compelling story of the cardiovascular disease risk factor she didn’t even know she had.
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RT @HeartSisters: "Never been sick in my life!" - so how could Dina Piersawl have had a stroke? https://t.co/13lJYeRuTT @HeartSisters @Din…
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Mashup Score: 1Failure to refer: why are doctors ignoring cardiac rehab? - 2 year(s) ago
Only 20% of eligible heart patients are referred by their physicians for cardiac rehabilitation after a cardiac event – despite the proven life-saving benefits of rehab. I have yet to hear of…
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RT @HeartSisters: Failure to refer: why are doctors ignoring cardiac rehabilitation? https://t.co/XvxoMqOOIm @HeartSisters https://t.co/BWY…
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Mashup Score: 0When patient ’empowerment’ means doing the heavy lifting - 2 year(s) ago
Female heart patients are now being asked to do the heavy lifting that isn’t being adequately done by the medical profession in addressing diagnostic error in women’s heart disease.
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When patient ’empowerment’ means doing the heavy lifting | Heart Sisters @HeartSisters @WomenHeartOrg Great info! Be your own advocate!! Speak up! Ask questions! Do not be dismissed!! #empowered #educated #notalone https://t.co/jAdWGoeVhA
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Mashup Score: 3When patient ’empowerment’ means doing the heavy lifting - 2 year(s) ago
Female heart patients are now being asked to do the heavy lifting that isn’t being adequately done by the medical profession in addressing diagnostic error in women’s heart disease.
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RT @HeartSisters: When patient ’empowerment’ means doing the heavy lifting https://t.co/0Q3kMTsK4S
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Mashup Score: 5
“The experience of being unseen and unheard can flatten the most hardy of souls…” Abigail Johnston, a Stage IV Metastatic Breast Cancer patient on “living while dying every …
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"People who live with what psychologist Dr. Ann Becker-Schutte calls 'healthy privilege' simply have no clue," writes Carolyn Thomas with input from @AMJohnston1315, who lives with #Stage4, on patient communities, @HeartSisters https://t.co/6KVolbBM8C
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Why won’t doctors believe women? https://t.co/7glHPlsPau via @HeartSisters