from heart FAILURE to heart FUNCTION

by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters

I’m pleased to share with my Heart Sisters readers some terrific news: the British Medical Journal (known everywhere as the BMJ) invited me early in 2023 to write an Editorial for BMJ Open Heart about an important cardiology issue that I’ve been lobbying, writing and speaking about over many years – and that Editorial has now been published.

I’m thrilled of course with this level of international interest. (Note to my American readers: you’ll notice British spellings throughout e.g. organise, minimise, etc. Do not be alarmed. They’re not mistakes). Here’s the text content, FYI: Continue reading ““Heart Failure: it’s time to finally change the F-word”: my Editorial in BMJ Open Heart” →

by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters

Recently, I was thrilled to read that New York cardiologist Dr. Anu Lala-Trindade had asked her audience at a heart failure conference in Cleveland why physicians were still using the word “FAILURE” to describe this condition. As she smartly pointed out to her colleagues, pulmonologists who specialize in treating lung problems are not called “lung failure doctors”. Podiatrists who specialize in foot problems aren’t “foot failure doctors”. You get the drift. Yet every day, cardiologists (mostly in North America) are still telling their patients out loud that their hearts are “FAILING” – as if they aren’t actually paying attention to the words they’re using. . Continue reading “Is heart “FAILURE” out? And heart “FUNCTION” in?” →

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