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		<title>If I&#8217;d had my heart attack decades ago . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cardiology 101]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[history of cardiac care]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From inventions like the cardiac pacemaker to the EKG or coronary stent, advances in the way heart patients are diagnosed and treated have changed the world of cardiology.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=13422&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Homicide in the E.R. &#8211; the tragic case of Beatrice Vance</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/01/20/beatrice-vance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beatrice Vance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[door to balloon protocol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Richard Keller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergency medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homicide in the E.R.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wenger Award for Excellence in Public Policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's what can happen when a brave doctor "challenges the medical dismissiveness directed at women in cardiac distress" - and when his coroner's inquest rules that a 49-year old woman's death in a hospital's E.R. waiting room was actually a case of homicide at the hands of the doctors and nurses who neglected to care for her.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=12691&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Could heart disease have its roots in your mother&#8217;s womb?</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/01/16/barker-hypothesis-chronic-disease/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/01/16/barker-hypothesis-chronic-disease/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women&#039;s cardiac risk factors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barker Hypothesis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. David Barker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harvard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[origins of chronic disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weight gain during pregnancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weight restrictions during pregnancy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let's consider what is known as "The Barker Hypothesis", which is British physician and epidemiologist Dr. David Barker's theory that the roots of future chronic conditions like heart disease stem from a developing baby’s environment in the womb.  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=12677&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My heart attack story in Ladies Home Journal</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/01/13/ladies-home-journal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amelia Harnish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthy Heart Action Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heartburn or heart attack?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ladies Home Journal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of Ladies Home Journal's special 'Heart Month' online edition, I was interviewed by the magazine about surviving a heart attack. Check out their article called "Heartburn or Heart Attack?"<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=13449&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Take your pick: carrots, eggs or coffee beans?</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/01/12/carrots-eggs-or-coffee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carrots eggs coffee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how do you handle adversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[living with heart disease]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Take one big life crisis - like a heart attack - and three pots of boiling water. Then put carrots, eggs and ground coffee beans into the pots and watch what happens.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=9907&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Misdiagnosis: the perils of &#8220;unwarranted certainty&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/01/08/unwarranted-certainty/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/01/08/unwarranted-certainty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diagnosing - and misdiagnosing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diagnosing and misdiagnosing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diagnosis momentum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. E. James Potchen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Jerome Groopman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EKG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How Doctors Think]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renee Fox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[search satisfaction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unwarranted clinical certainty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Jerome Groopman, in his must-read book called "How Doctors Think", writes: "Physicians, like everyone else, display certain psychological characteristics when they act in the face of uncertainty. There is the over-confident mindset: people convince themselves they are right because they usually are. Specialists in particular are known to demonstrate unwarranted clinical certainty. They have trained for so long that they begin too easily to rely on their vast knowledge and can overlook the variability in human biology.”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=13200&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to stare down that plate of chocolate chip cookies</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2012/01/04/end-of-overeating/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart-smart eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women&#039;s cardiac risk factors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. David Kessler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthy eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obesity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The End of Overeating]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Dr. David Kessler's amazing little book "The End of Overeating", food manufacturers, marketers and restaurants take strategic advantage of powerful “cues” to get us to eat more of their fatty, sugary, or salty foods.  If these cues keep coming – if you see candy or chips on every corner, for example, and if you keep returning to locations where you habitually overeat – you’ll just be relying on sheer willpower, day after day, to try to resist the irresistible. Here are Dr. Kessler's seven tips on how to STOP believing that this tempting food is somehow calling your name and - worse! - that you're simply powerless to refuse it.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=13202&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Year in review: top 10 Heart Sisters posts for 2011</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/12/31/year-in-review-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/12/31/year-in-review-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart Sisters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Best of 2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[most popular posts about heart disease]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If Heart Sisters were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum in Paris, it would take over six days for this year's visitors to see it. It's that time again, dear readers, when media navel-gazers everywhere compile their 'Best Of' or 'Top 10' lists for 2011.  So let's take a nostalgic look backwards today at what I like to describe as "cardiac rehab for my brain" - and why almost 270,000 readers from 133 countries have visited Heart Sisters so far!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=13254&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The lost art of common courtesy in medicine</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/12/27/the-lost-art-of-common-courtesy-in-medicine/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/12/27/the-lost-art-of-common-courtesy-in-medicine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart Sisters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctor patient communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Anne Marie Valinotti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Lyle Fettig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Michael Kahn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[etiquette-based medicine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since my heart attack, I have decided to stop meekly tolerating bad manners from my health care providers. As Dr. Michael Kahn wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine:  "There have been many attempts to foster empathy, curiosity, and compassion in medical students, but none that I know of to systematically teach good manners. I believe that medical education should place more emphasis on this aspect of the doctor–patient relationship — what I would call 'etiquette-based medicine'. "<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=8421&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to have a waste-free festive family dinner this year</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/12/23/how-to-have-a-waste-free-festive-family-dinner-this-year/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/12/23/how-to-have-a-waste-free-festive-family-dinner-this-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart-smart eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathon Bloom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leftover turkey recipes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wasted Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since surviving a heart attack, I'm smugly happy to announce that my consumption of heart-healthy fruit and veggies has increased nicely.  I should preface that by explaining that I grew up in a Ukrainian family where we considered dill pickles to be a vegetable course).  This means that sometimes the nice fresh produce in the back of the crisper can begin to resemble compost slime more than tonight's dinner - and that's just plain wasteful. In fact, North Americans waste about 40% of the food produced for human consumption, both before it gets to the plate, or because we leave uneaten food on that plate.  Here are four tips to help you have a waste-free holiday season this year - and beyond. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=13019&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pregnancy: the ultimate cardiac stress test</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/12/19/pregnancy-the-ultimate-cardiac-stress-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Graeme Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Susan Chamberlain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MotHERS program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pre-eclampsia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pregnancy complications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queen's Perinatal Research Unit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Studies now show that pregnancy complications (like my pre-eclampsia) are strongly linked to future cardiovascular disease.  The Canadian husband-and-wife obstetrician team of Dr. Graeme Smith and Dr. Susan Chamberlain believe that “...too much of health care is spent reacting to disease after it’s happened, and not enough is spent on prevention!" That's why they hope their "Mothers Health Education Research and Screening" (MotHERS) program will be a great  place to start. Healthy pregnancies lead to healthy children and healthy adults.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=13011&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Seeking Social Solace&#8221;: why aren&#8217;t heart patients online?</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/12/15/seeking-social-solace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[e-patients]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical Googling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online patient forums]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[women and heart disease]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A study called "Seeking Social Solace" identified trends in how patients with serious medical conditions are using social media platforms like blogs, online patient forums,  Facebook or Twitter - and found that heart disease represents a puny 2% of all diagnoses discussed on social media.  Why so low?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=13044&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advice for heart patients too tired to do housework</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/12/11/advice-for-heart-patients/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/12/11/advice-for-heart-patients/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maxine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having one of "those" days when you just don't feel well enough to bother about things like housework and cleanliness?  Here's some surefire advice from Maxine. . . <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=13022&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What your body fat really looks like</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/12/07/what-your-body-fat-really-looks-like/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Women&#039;s cardiac risk factors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Body Mass Index]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MRI of body fat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Geographic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obesity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[overweight]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["Our bodies are good at converting food into fat and then hanging on to it. This trait may have helped our ancestors survive when calories were few and far between," says this Columbia University geneticist. "But fast-forward to the 21st century, when calorie supply isn't a problem, and genes that favor gaining weight have outlived their usefulness. Evolution betrays us. We store fat for the famine that never comes."  Find out how in these amazingly graphic MRI images of two women with very different body shapes.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=12981&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Gigi&#8221;: An E.R. doc&#8217;s warning to his residents</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/12/03/gigi-ekg-tech-advice/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/12/03/gigi-ekg-tech-advice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 12:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diagnosing - and misdiagnosing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E.R.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EKG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergency Department]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gigi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical school education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patient communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[storytellERdoc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Read this senior E.R. doc's warning to his medical residents, based on the role model of his favourite EKG tech:  "You can make this 'a job', going through the motions of what is expected of you, or you can embrace the privilege you've been given and do your job with pride and compassion."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=12613&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Holiday Heart&#8217; in women</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/11/29/holiday-heart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cardiology 101]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diagnosing - and misdiagnosing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcohol and heart arrhythmia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. John Mandrola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Richard Fogoros]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holiday heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marijuana and arrhythmia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paroxysmal atrial fibrillation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supraventricular tachyarrhythmias]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Often overlooked by doctors, Paroxysmal Arial Fibrillation or 'Holiday Heart Syndrome'  can be caused by sensitivity to alcohol, and can sometimes be triggered by consuming just one drink.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=5963&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Gaslighting&#8217; &#8211; or, why women are just too darned emotional during their heart attacks</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/11/25/gaslighting/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/11/25/gaslighting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diagnosing - and misdiagnosing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Robin Stern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergency Department]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gaslight tango]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gaslighting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[misdiagnosis of heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women's heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yashar Ali]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Those who engage in "gaslighting" create a reaction - whether it's anger, frustration, embarrassment -  in the person they are speaking to. Then, when that person reacts, the gaslighter makes them feel uncomfortable and insecure by behaving as if their feelings are not "rational" or "normal".<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=12861&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;But what about the men?!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/11/21/but-what-about-the-men/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/11/21/but-what-about-the-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diagnosing - and misdiagnosing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart disease gender differences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katherine Leon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laura Haywood-Cory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mayo clinic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Heart attack survivor Laura Haywood-Cory writes: "Women don't want to take away the piece of the pie for men (access to accurate cardiac diagnosis and correct treatment).  We just want to ensure that everyone has pie. 
"And everyone wants pie, right?"<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=12653&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yale Heart Study asks why we wait so long before seeking help in mid-heart attack</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/11/17/yale-heart-study-asks-why-we-wait-so-long-before-seeking-help-in-mid-heart-attack/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/11/17/yale-heart-study-asks-why-we-wait-so-long-before-seeking-help-in-mid-heart-attack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Signs of a Heart Attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[angina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cumulative adversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Angelo Alonzo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Institutes of Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[post traumatic stress disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PTSD]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Yale Heart Study is currently recruiting 2,300 heart attack survivors over the age of 35 for important answers to the question: "Why the heck do we wait so long before seeking help in the middle of a heart attack?" If you or somebody you know qualifies to participate, please consider doing so today.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=12735&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why are hospital staff wearing uniforms, scrubs and white coats in public?</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/11/13/hospital-staff-dirty-uniforms/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2011/11/13/hospital-staff-dirty-uniforms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart Sisters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bacteria on hospital uniforms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctors white coats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Yonit Wiener-Well]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hand hygiene in hospital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hospital hygiene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hospital scrubs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MRSA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nurses uniforms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pathogenic bacteria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[super bugs in hospital]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A study on the cleanliness of doctors' white coats and nurses' uniforms reports that a shockingly high 18% of doctors admitted they hadn't changed their white coats in four or more days, and one-quarter of both doctors and nurses rated their clothing as "not clean".  Why are these people leaving work in these bacteria-laden clothing  - and then leaning over the fresh produce bins at your local grocery store on their way home?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&amp;blog=7235999&amp;post=12050&amp;subd=czthomas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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