by Carolyn Thomas ❤️ Heart Sisters (on Blue Sky)
Women showing up at the Emergency Department seeking help due to their frightening cardiac symptoms can often feel “stopped at the gate” .This means they’re denied critical assessment and management of both acute heart disease signs and symptoms.
But signs and symptoms have different meanings. Your body’s physical symptoms are essentially something that feels out-of-the-ordinary, which may indicate a disease or medical condition. Symptoms are reported by the person who is experiencing them. And signs are what your health care professional can see or measure. These two words are often used interchangeably, but they’re not the same. . Continue reading “Signs & symptoms: are they the same thing?”
I wasn’t at the 2-day Canadian Women’s Heart Health Summit in person, but I participated via Zoom (in my jammies, watching Jackie onstage in Ottawa over my second cup of coffee here on the beautiful west coast of Canada). I can tell you that the impressive audience response to Jackie’s presentation rarely – if ever – would have happened to patients a decade or so ago (mostly because few patients then were invited to speak onstage to an audience of physicians). With her kind permission, I’m sharing Jackie’s script from her Canadian Women’s Heart Health Summit presentation called “I WEAR A CROWN” (and a 2024 
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