Category: Heart Sisters

How many heart patients get to the hospital by ambulance?

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by Carolyn Thomas   ❤️   Heart Sisters (on Blue Sky)

In 2010, Australia’s National Heart Foundation launched what they called a “hard-hitting” Heart Attack Warning Signs awareness campaign. Physicians and cardiac researchers were concerned that too many Australians did not know the common warning signs of a heart attack. They hoped that such an awareness campaign would encourage high-risk patients to quickly call an ambulance if they were having cardiac symptoms. Their Warning Signs campaign explained why this is so critically important: 
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Are physicians losing public trust?

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by Carolyn Thomas   ❤️   Heart Sisters (on Blue Sky)

San Francisco Emergency physician Dr. Graham Walker is right to be concerned about what he calls “the erosion of public trust in physicians and the healthcare system” – an important trend he wrote about recently in his OffCall opinion piece entitled “Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust Doctors Anymore?” 

This is what he’s urging his medical colleagues to consider:    Continue reading “Are physicians losing public trust?” →

Why I deleted that post. . .

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by Carolyn Thomas   ❤️   Heart Sisters (on Blue Sky)

Some of my longtime Heart Sisters  readers may recall my other blog called The Ethical Nag: Marketing Ethics for the Easily Swayed.  I started The Nag in 2009, shortly after my post-heart attack launch of Heart Sisters. (Not one but TWO websites? I must have had a lot of recuperation time on my hands back then!)

My Heart Sisters blog is about my true obsession – women and heart disease (which, by the way, kills more women each year than all forms of cancer combined).  But in those early days, I was also writing about other issues that somehow didn’t quite fit Heart Sisters. So The Nag became a home for those other posts – but it was one specific article that ultimately made me pull the  plug:
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Which common medicine won a place in the Guinness Book of World Records?

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  by Carolyn Thomas   ♥  Heart Sisters (on Blue Sky)

It’s been in use for thousands of years. In Ancient Greece, the famous physician and philosopher Hippocrates (also called the father of modern medicine) commented on the healing properties of this popular medicine made of the active ingredients from an extract of willow tree bark. But it would take several centuries for this extract to become a staple in most bathroom medicine cabinets.  Continue reading “Which common medicine won a place in the Guinness Book of World Records?” →