
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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If I asked you about the exact moment you were diagnosed with heart disease, would you be able to remember that moment? Research suggests that most of us (whatever our serious diagnosis) can clearly recall, often in surprisingly precise detail, the exact words used by the physician who broke the news to us – even decades later.