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2024 Heart Sisters posts

JANUARY 2024

New Year’s resolutions for those who hate resolutions

How health journalists help “to make people who feel invisible feel seen”

“Did that go okay?” How to tell if your message is landing

Cold weather = worse angina symptoms!

FEBRUARY 2024 – It’s HEART MONTH!  ❤️

Cardiac research: more fun facts

Swedish death cleaning isn’t only about death

Heart Month 2024:  my interview with Lindsay Dixon

Feynman’s Razor:  “Explain it like you’re talking to an imaginary child”

MARCH 2024

Cardiac College for (Freshly Diagnosed) Women: “Your heart is like a house”

Habituation: “Give me a pain that I’m used to!”

#PatientsIncluded “Lite”: sort of, maybe, but not really.

It’s not what you do.. It’s who you are.

Not-So-Happy Easter Weekend

APRIL 2024

Talking about women’s heart disease to medical students

“You must go on.   I can’t go on.   I’ll go on. . .”

When female doctors treat female patients

MAY 2024

Say what? Heart disease and hearing loss

 

 

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