2024 Heart Sisters posts
JANUARY 2024
New Year’s resolutions for those who hate resolutions
How health journalists help “to make people who feel invisible feel seen”
“Did that go okay?” How to tell if your message is landing
Cold weather = worse angina symptoms!
FEBRUARY 2024 – It’s HEART MONTH! ❤️
Cardiac research: more fun facts
Swedish death cleaning isn’t only about death
Heart Month 2024: my interview with Lindsay Dixon
Feynman’s Razor: “Explain it like you’re talking to an imaginary child”
MARCH 2024
Cardiac College for (Freshly Diagnosed) Women: “Your heart is like a house”
Habituation: “Give me a pain that I’m used to!”
#PatientsIncluded “Lite”: sort of, maybe, but not really.
It’s not what you do.. It’s who you are.
APRIL 2024
Talking about women’s heart disease to medical students
“You must go on. I can’t go on. I’ll go on. . .”
When female doctors treat female patients
MAY 2024
Say what? Heart disease and hearing loss
A fascinating history of your coronary stent
Cardiac care: more good news for young, healthy white men
Survey: how women (and our doctors) respond to early cardiac symptoms
JUNE 2024
Moral injury in cardiac misdiagnosis
Chronic complaining: don’t be such a “Greiner Zanner”
Can gardening ward off heart attacks?
“What? So what? Now what?” Self-reflection for the new heart patient
I’m not past my prime – or did I miss the memo?
JULY 2024
Dear Valued Patient: “Bye-Bye!”
Adjusting to a diagnosis you do NOT want to adjust to
Doctors who know the impact of pregnancy complications on our cardiac risk
Post-stent chest pain, revisited
AUGUST 2024
When you have a ‘silent’ heart attack
Women’s cardiac care: back then, right now and into our future
Linda’s wise advice about open heart surgery
Becoming a patient: a daily exercise in accepting reality
SEPTEMBER 2024
Are you one of the “Top Grateful Patients” at your hospital?
Research on cardiac care disparities between men and women: a waste of time?
A patient-led Roundtable on late, missed and misdiagnosis of heart disease in women
Patient “stories” vs. medical “reports”: The Patient Experience Library
When patients worry about being judged
OCTOBER 2024
The most frightening cardiac symptom
“Throws are far more important than catches”
“Hedging” during diagnostic uncertainty
Do patients have a “happiness set point?”
NOVEMBER 2024
Ups, downs and going with the flow of diagnosis
DAPT for heart patients (or why you should postpone that pedicure appointment)
DECEMBER 2024
Best holiday gift ideas for heart patients
My video interview with Connie Jorsvik: the “Patient Pathways” workshop
The Grinch’s Guide to Women’s Heart Attacks (with apologies to Dr. Seuss)
Revisiting this craving for post-holiday solitude
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