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;.. . . and for this year:,
JANUARY 2012
- How to stare down that plate of chocolate chip cookies
- Misdiagnosis: the perils of “unwarranted certainty”
- Take your pick: carrots, eggs or coffee beans?
- Could heart disease have its roots in your mother’s womb?
- Homicide in the E.R. – the tragic case of Beatrice Vance
- If I’d had my heart attack decades ago . . .
- Listen up, ladies: 16 things I’ve been meaning to tell you
FEBRUARY 2012
- Your heart health: “Make time now, so you can have time later!”
- Women live longer – but not healthier – lives than men
- Why don’t patients listen to doctors’ heart-healthy advice?
- Why feel helpless about your coronary artery disease?
- Six Rules for navigating your next doctor’s appointment
- When your mother dies
- How our girlfriends can help us get through the toughest times
- A zebra among horses
- Bereavement eating: does grief cause carb cravings?
- Squishing, burning and implanting your heart troubles away
- Too embarrassed to call 911 during a heart attack?
- Would it kill you to treat your patients with respect?
- Coronary Microvascular Disease: a “trash basket” diagnosis
- The unforgettable diagnosis: “You’re having a heart attack!”
- How a heart attack turned me into an “information flâneuse”
APRIL 2012
- Coping with your partner’s ICD and heart disease
- “Smile, Though Your Heart is Aching” – is fake smiling unhealthy?
- A second opinion from Dr. Google
- Why you’ll listen to me – but not to your doctor
- Heart disease within “the comfort of denial”
- What’s the single biggest health threat women face?
- How runaway stress hurts your heart – and your brain
- Are you reading this sitting down? Don’t!
MAY 2012
- Taking aspirin at first sign of heart attack: good or bad advice?
- Former BMJ editor: “Doctors are not interested in health”
- A poem for heart attack survivors
- A motherless Mother’s Day
- Those curious cardiac enzymes
- Khan Academy’s crash course on heart disease
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