Study finds doctors suffer from same challenges as many of us with sleep, diet and exercise. But doctors who have a healthy lifestyle more likely to discuss this with their patients. So helping doctors overcome these challenges is good for the healthcare system. #ESCCongress

Becoming a patient: a daily exercise in accepting reality: "Accepting reality can be a strategy to protect us against the more dangerous response of denial in reaction to an alarming diagnosis..." myheartsisters.org/2024/08/25/bei… via Carolyn Thomas ☮️

I had my 1st dose of the shingles vaccine this month - because 2 family members have had shingles and it was horrific! Felt sickly x 2 days post-vax (fever/chills/fatigue) but rested up knowing it's working! My body was starting to build immunity - and reduce my dementia risk!

Are you one of the "Top Grateful Patients" at your hospital? One way hospital fundraisers can get help with the heavy lifting of a major campaign involves people who are known as Top Grateful Patients.   Yes. Seriously. myheartsisters.org/2024/09/01/top… via Carolyn Thomas ☮️

Thank you dear Marie for including my post about how becoming a patient is a daily exercise in accepting reality. 💕

Pay attention to the cardiac research of Dr. Karin Humphries in Vancouver who reports “setting a lower female-specific #troponin threshold would improve the diagnosis, treatment and outcomes of women!" #WomenAreNotSmallMen myheartsisters.org/2021/02/14/wom… Carolyn Thomas ☮️ Karin Humphries

Are you one of the "Top Grateful Patients" at your hospital? "What happened when fundraising staff in the same hospital that had misdiagnosed me and sent me home in mid-heart attack asked me to help with their upcoming campaign..." myheartsisters.org/2024/09/01/top… via Carolyn Thomas ☮️

This is all we needed when I was a little girl - one of these vintage Fire King Jadeite coffee mugs beside the stove, 24/7. It's a miracle I survived childhood on the farm... 😵‍💫

Any one talking #healthcare right now needs to read this Carolyn Thomas ☮️ essay on hospital philanthropy. Well funded systems should not require donor $$ & sure as hell shouldn't be pressuring patients to give. #healthcare is a human right. myheartsisters.org/2024/09/01/top… via Carolyn Thomas ☮️

Thank you physicians, nurses, paramedics, techs, hospital admin, kitchen and housekeeping staff and everybody working this holiday weekend so the rest of us can be safe!

Top ER visit reasons also include: -I have no where else to go -My family MD is closed -I don't have a family MD -My specialist is not available -I was retrieved from the park/sidewalk -I need long term care -My family and I can no longer cope with the resources we have.

Good news for patients like me admitted thru Emergency: had breakfast at home, took a taxi to hospital (don't yell at me!!) Maybe staff asked if I'd eaten (can't remember - so much going on!) but I was taken to the cath lab very quickly anyway😵‍💫

The Sweet Spot Kitchen is an online community for people with heart concerns: a self-guided step-by-step course covering 4 milestones of heart-healthy eating led by registered dietitian Cheryl Strachan Cheryl Strachan RD (she/her) youtube.com/watch?v=PYnUCD…

Worth many reposts 🙏Carolyn Thomas ☮️ "Top Grateful Patients Fundraising Strategies" "Wealth screenings" conducted *before* a patient's appt to determine the patient’s "capacity for giving." myheartsisters.org/2024/09/01/top… About those patients who are harmed ± possibly less 'grateful'... 1/

Those patient comment cards? Losing patience with Patient Relations: Hospital officials work for hospitals, not for patients, no independent authority to investigate patient feedback. Hospital complaints are "a rigged game that often produces still more waves of emotional harm.”

‘Disrupting’. What does this even mean? If it’s not evidence based it may as well be homeopathy …..

Learn from Emerg doc Sam Ghali, M.D. to discover how right @DrJohnM is: Every post is a master class in interpretation e.g. "This ECG should be very concerning. Classic, hyper-acute ischemic T-waves. There’s injury in every single one of these ECG leads.” myheartsisters.org/2023/04/23/sam…

"I wish I’d had this helpful, jargon-free, evidence-based patient education program from the University Health Network Cardiac College for Women when I was a freshly-diagnosed heart patient..."💕 myheartsisters.org/2024/03/03/car… Carolyn Thomas ☮️

Be honest, who’s crying?

Nine lessons about women's heart disease that future doctors will learn in med school: "The most flawed assumption in medicine is this: if it makes sense in a male body, it must make sense in a female one, too.” ~ Alyson J. McGregor myheartsisters.org/2023/09/10/nin… via Carolyn Thomas ☮️