Tag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Why patients don’t have admin assistants

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                   Moments from the full, rich life of patient partner Lelainia Lloyd *

by Carolyn Thomas   ♥  @HeartSisters

Patients can sometimes be sickly people in bed, wearing embarrassingly undignified bum-baring hospital gowns.

Patients can also be experts in the lived experience of their own diagnoses,  who contribute to medical research and education teams as partners in meaningful academic projects.

If you’re surprised by that last description, you’ll be even more surprised by all the things that many patient partners can do in life (besides laying around being sickly).       .        . Continue reading “Why patients don’t have admin assistants” →

What to get the heart patient who has (almost) everything. . .

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by Carolyn Thomas  ♥  @HeartSisters  

Oh, sure, you can do last-minute Christmas shopping for another scented candle, or a lovely piece of pottery that might end up on the yard sale table together some day. Or you can decide to shop for a truly useful gift for the woman in your life who has been diagnosed with heart disease. Here’s why, in my admittedly biased view, that gift should be A Woman’s Guide to Living with Heart Disease  – along with some simple and painless ways for you to make that happen in time for Santa’s arrival. You can even save 30% off the list price if you order from my publisher, Johns Hopkins University Press!) Continue reading “What to get the heart patient who has (almost) everything. . .” →

Some book excerpts to tease you…

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by Carolyn Thomas  ♥ @HeartSisters 

It’s been quite the ride since my book was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2017! When it was launched, “A Woman’s Guide to Living with Heart Disease” became Amazon’s #1 New Release in the Medicine/Public Health category. The book is now in its second printing, and reviews have been truly wonderful – with one notable exception: an Australian reader named Robert who complained in his review that there was “a bit too much emphasis on how women are neglected when it comes to heart disease” – and then added: “Happily for me, my doctors, nurses and physios did everything by the book.”

Thank you Robert, for helping to illustrate the cardiology gender gap so perfectly!

Here are some random excerpts from my book, gathered from each of the 10 chapters.
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Can’t wait to start reading my book? Here’s Chapter 1!

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by Carolyn Thomas  ♥  @HeartSisters 

February is Heart Month, so here’s a Heart Month bonus for you! You can now read the full transcript of Chapter 1 of “A Woman’s Guide to Living with Heart Disease“  (Johns Hopkins University Press). I’m thrilled to say that my book is already in its second printing of both hardcover and paperback editions. Thank you, darling readers!  Here’s Chapter 1, and here’s how to buy your own copy to read the other nine chapters – and, of course, the gorgeous foreword written by cardiologist Dr. Martha Gulati. ♥ Continue reading “Can’t wait to start reading my book? Here’s Chapter 1!” →