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		<title>Khan Academy&#8217;s crash course on heart disease</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 11:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cardiology 101]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how heart disease happens]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization, created in 2006 with the stated mission of "providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere". Its creator is MIT grad Sal Khan, who has created an exquisitely simple yet compelling look at how heart disease happens, just one of over 3,000 free online micro-lecture tutorials at the Khan Academy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=14225&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Those curious cardiac enzymes</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/05/15/cardiac-enzymes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 11:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diagnosing - and misdiagnosing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AST]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cardiac enzymes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[women misdiagnosed heart attacks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Current diagnostic protocols for identifying heart attack include taking at least two blood samples to test for cardiac enzymes during the first 12 hours after the onset of symptoms. But like many women, I was sent home within five hours of the onset of those textbook symptoms - so was I misdiagnosed after my cardiac tests turned out to be "normal" because I had simply been sent home too soon? Here's more about those telltale cardiac enzymes that doctors look for.  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=14722&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A motherless Mother&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/05/13/motherles-mothers-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 11:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart Sisters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mothers Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[when your mother dies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On this, the first Mother's Day since she died in February, I reflect on the first Mother's day in living memory when I didn't send my Mom a card and flowers.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=14804&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What Was That?&#8221; A poem for heart attack survivors</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/05/11/lorraine-gradwell-poem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 11:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lorraine Gradwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[widow maker heart attack]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Silent damage, death by stealth. An unfelt pain revealed . . . "  Manchester, England's Lorraine Gradwell agreed to share with us the poem she wrote shortly after surviving what doctors call a "widow maker" heart attack last fall. Read more of Lorraine's poem that captures the emotional roller coaster of what it's like living with heart disease. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=14632&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Former BMJ editor: &#8220;Doctors are not interested in health&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/05/07/dr-richard-smith/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/05/07/dr-richard-smith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 11:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women&#039;s cardiac risk factors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Richard Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart disease prevention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Cardiology Congress Dubai]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Richard Smith, writing in the British Medical Journal last month, offered such a revealing overview of everything that is wrong in medicine that I feel compelled to share with you his recent article about attending the World Cardiology Congress in Dubai. For example: "The session on stents was full to overflowing. Stents mean money and drama. Prevention, in contrast,is boring, all about what doesn't happen rather than what does. Plus, were it to be successful, it would put cardiologists out of business."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=14719&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taking aspirin at first sign of heart attack: good or bad advice?</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/05/03/chewing-aspirin-heart-attack/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/05/03/chewing-aspirin-heart-attack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 11:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cardiology 101]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aspirin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bristol-Myers Squibb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. James Wright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plavix and Crestor instead of aspirin for heart attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sanofi Aventis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Therapeutics Initiative]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You've no doubt already heard about this standard protocol for those who think they might be experiencing a heart attack: "Call 911 and chew one full-strength aspirin".  So why are doctors telling heart patients about a new "Axe The Aspirin" protocol in favour of a pharmaceutical duo that includes an anti-platelet drug that's nine times the recommended therapeutic dosage? <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=14573&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are you reading this sitting down? Don&#8217;t!</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/04/29/sitting-down/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/04/29/sitting-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart Sisters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women&#039;s cardiac risk factors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BMI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Body Mass Index]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Alpa Patel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sitting dangerous to health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stand up desk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another study shows that sitting is really, really, really bad for your health. Here's why you should consider getting a stand-up desk!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=14661&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How runaway stress hurts your heart &#8211; and your brain</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/04/25/stress-heart-brain/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/04/25/stress-heart-brain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women&#039;s cardiac risk factors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chronic stress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Ropeik]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Daniel Brotman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[glucocorticoids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stress and heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stress hormones]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Stress not only impairs formation and recall of long term memory and is strongly associated with clinical depression, but - of special interest to heart patients -  it ironically seems to bring on a decreased ability to cope with further stressful experiences.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=14304&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the single biggest health threat women face?</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/04/21/biggest-health-threat-women/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/04/21/biggest-health-threat-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cardiology 101]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Noel Bairey Merz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ischemia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microvascular disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women and heart disease]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cardiologist Dr. Noel Bairey-Merz of Cedars Sinai Medical Center tells us about the "Yentl" syndrome to help explain why women are still being under-diagnosed and under-treated when it comes to heart disease.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=14327&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heart disease within &#8220;the comfort of denial&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/04/17/the-comfort-of-denial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart disease and mental health issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chest pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NewAllie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["I can move seamlessly between devastation and endless hope", writes Allie, a heart attack survivor who describes what few cardiologists ever warn us about: that wild day-to-day emotional ride careening from sheer terror to calm normalcy.  "Like the shining sun and singing birds after a storm, it is so easy to forget how scary it can be."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=14278&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why you&#8217;ll listen to me &#8211; but not to your doctor</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/04/13/dr-mike-evans/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/04/13/dr-mike-evans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women&#039;s cardiac risk factors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[23 1/2 Hours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctor patient communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Mike Evans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[engaged patients]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-compliance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Just giving patients data is clearly not working," Dr. Mike Evans warns frustrated physicians who can't seem to engage their patients in following  healthy lifestyle advice. Doctors need to rethink the way they're trying to motivate patients. What DOES work to convince us to make positive changes?  According to Dr. Evans (of video-gone-viral '23 1/2 Hours' fame): "Stories trump data, relationships trump stories, and individuals trump organizations".  Here's how. . . <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=14458&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A second opinion from Dr. Google</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/04/09/a-second-opinion-from-dr-google/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/04/09/a-second-opinion-from-dr-google/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diagnosing - and misdiagnosing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Kevin Pho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Scott Haig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Stuart Foxman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laura Haywood-Cory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical Googlers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When she first began discussing her heart condition with her doctor, he told her he "hadn't realized" she was a doctor. She replied: "I'm not a doctor, but I am a very good researcher."  He gave that "small, insulting half-laugh that doctors reserve for this response, and said that he wasn't sure he approved of patients doing research."
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		<title>&#8220;Smile, Though Your Heart is Aching&#8221;: is fake smiling unhealthy?</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/04/05/faking-smiles-unhealthy/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/04/05/faking-smiles-unhealthy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deep acting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dissociation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Brent Scott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Martin Seligman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotional labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicholas Lockwood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, the sun does NOT "come shining through" just because you "smile through the tears and sorrow." In fact, some research suggests that pasting on a happy face that does not reflect your accurate emotional state can actually  lead to distress and impaired functioning - and this can be especially damaging for women.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=14325&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coping with your partner&#8217;s ICD and heart disease</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/04/01/your-partners-icd/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/04/01/your-partners-icd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cardiology 101]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heart disease and mental health issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anxiety and heart disease]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This little medical device has been described as "having an E.R. in your chest", able to shock an ailing heart back into rhythm. But studies show that the spouse and family of patients who have had ICDs implanted in their chests are actually the ones feeling more anxious than the patients.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=14259&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How a heart attack turned me into an &#8220;information flâneuse&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/03/28/information-flaneuse/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/03/28/information-flaneuse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Graeme Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Kent Bottles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Marya Zilberberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marian Dörk]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sense-making information gathering]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[These words come from the French verb flâner, which means "to stroll".  Usually the term refers to “a person who walks the city in order to experience it” - originally affectionately associated with the city of Paris. But that meaning has now expanded to include much more than just strolling around, and now means information-gathering, or "wandering around and finding things I did not even know I was looking for.""<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=13832&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The unforgettable diagnosis: &#8220;You&#8217;re having a heart attack!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/03/24/jennifer-donelan-scad/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/03/24/jennifer-donelan-scad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cardiology 101]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Signs of a Heart Attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Donelan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SCAD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spontaneous coronary artery dissection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women and heart attack]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["The young female doctor looked into my eyes and said: 'You are having a heart attack and everything from here is going to be happening very fast.'  I prayed. I cried. I didn't want to die."  Here's how ABC television news reporter  Jennifer Donelan describes in her own words that fateful day at work when she suffered a heart attack at age 36.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=13932&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coronary Microvascular Disease: a &#8220;trash basket diagnosis&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/03/20/coronary-microvascular-disease/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/03/20/coronary-microvascular-disease/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cardiology 101]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diagnosing - and misdiagnosing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coronary microvascular disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coronary reactivity testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Juan Carlos Kaski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Noel Bairey Merz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[endothelial dysfunction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mayo clinic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-obstructive heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prinzmetal's Variant Angina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was at Mayo Clinic, cardiologists there referred to coronary microvascular disease as a "trash basket diagnosis" - not because the condition doesn't exist, but because this debilitating disorder of the tiniest blood vessels in the heart is so often missed entirely. A correct diagnosis usually happens only when all other possible cardiac diagnoses are thrown out. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=14103&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Would it kill you to treat your patients with respect?</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/03/16/treat-patients-with-respect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[common courtesy in medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctor patient communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Don Berwick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naomi Freundlich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rudeness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Cost of Satisfaction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Patients indicate on surveys that they don't want to wait too long for medical appointments, they want health care providers to treat them kindly and with respect, they want prompt relief of distressing symptoms. And they also say they're dissatisfied with care when they feel slighted or ignored.  And that's why I decided one day to address the rude behaviour of my dental hygienist . . . <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=13919&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Too embarrassed to call 911 during a heart attack?</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/03/12/too-embarrassed-to-call-911-during-a-heart-attack/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/03/12/too-embarrassed-to-call-911-during-a-heart-attack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diagnosing - and misdiagnosing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cleveland Clinic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Angelo Alonzo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[embarrassment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Len Gould]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surviving heart attack]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[worried well]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sadly, only one in five patients actually gets to the hospital within one hour of the onset of heart attack symptoms. In fact, the average delay, even while suffering serious cardiac symptoms, is four hours. This delay means that even people who survive a heart attack can be left with large portions of the heart unnecessarily and permanently  scarred by the heart attack. And one of the reasons for what doctors call  "treatment-seeking delay" is plain old embarrassment. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=13715&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Squishing, burning and implanting your heart troubles away</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/03/08/squishing-burning-and-implanting-your-heart-troubles-away/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/03/08/squishing-burning-and-implanting-your-heart-troubles-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Chris Blanchard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Craig Bowron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. John Mandrola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Mark Haykowsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Rainer Hambrecht]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oculostenotic reflex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patient accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women's heart attacks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As cardiologist Dr. John Mandrola writes: "We urge patients to eat less, exercise more, and not to smoke. But when they don’t do these things, we still squish their blockages, burn their rogue electrical circuits, and implant lifesaving devices in their hearts."  Since heart disease is a diagnosis of chronic and progressive damage, these heroic efforts do little to address what caused our problems in the first place - often decades earlier.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=13979&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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