Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦
@heart-sisters
Author of "A Woman's Guide to Living With Heart Disease" published by @HopkinsPress.bsky.social Speaker. Jargon translator. Narrator. Mayo Clinic-trained patient activist. www.myheartsisters.org Zack & Rosie's Baba & BreastCancer oh joy! Slava Ukraini!
Ups, downs, and going with the flow of diagnosis: myheartsisters.org/2024/11/17/k...
I thought that medical journal editorials were written by professional journal editors (not patients) - until the #BMJ asked me to write this one: "Heart 'FAILURE': It's time to finally change the F-word" openheart.bmj.com/content/open...
Male Allyship: This toolkit was developed by the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health. We hope to empower men wishing to be good mentors and sponsors of women colleagues with proven tools and strategies to do so. globalhealth.stanford.edu/wp-content/u...
Cardiac College for Women - fantastic free resource (especially for the freshly-diagnosed heart patient) created by and for women. Supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research #CIHR www.healtheuniversity.ca/EN/CardiacCo...
www.vchri.ca/2015/05/24/e... So many important take-away points on women's heart health from the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute's public event : "Your Heart, Your Health"
Thrilled to learn that Dr. Anastasia Shchendrygina has cited my #BMJ Editorial in her research: openheart.bmj.com/content/open...
“Carolyn has given a voice to the female heart patient in a way that few others have been able to..." Read Dr. Martha Gulati's fabulous foreword to my book 💕 myheartsisters.org/2018/06/24/d...
Were your generic prescription drugs made in factories cited by FDA inspectors for issues like "not free of infestation by rodents, birds insects, and other vermin" My drug report says: "Factory is in Aurobindo, India: 12 known FDA inspections, 7 found issues, e.g:
In January I received a letter from the Executive Director at my publisher #JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress about "managing the risk" of #AI pros & cons, which asked me to agree to license my work on LLMs (despite concerns that"major LLM companies already have our books") www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Book Sale! Save 30% off list price when you order "A Woman's Guide to Living with Heart Disease" directly from publisher Johns Hopkins University Press using code HTWN www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... myheartsisters.org/the-book/
Can gardening ward off heart attacks? Penn State researchers say YES! "Gardening's associated with better cardiovascular health among older adults compared to adults who do NOT garden." Carrying heavy pots/bags of soil/watering cans out in my balcony garden count! myheartsisters.org/2024/06/16/g...
www.garrisonkeillor.com/holy-week-th... Garrison Keillor on Trump's venture into dark territory on Easter morning: “Disapprove” is a mild term for what’s happening: the polls should think of adding “Embarrassed by” and maybe “Loathe.”
I live in Victoria on Vancouver Island (not to be confused w. the BIG CITY of Vancouver on the mainland). I've been a ferry passenger since the 70s. 🇨🇦 I LOVE our 90 min. mini ocean cruises, but execs at BC Ferries are trying to explain away current crisis: "should have built new ferries long ago!"
A patient's dilemma: to cry or not to cry "I was relieved to learn about health benefits of crying, because I’d just spent an appointment at the Urgent Care Clinic, silently weeping uncontrollably not because I was in pain, but because my doctor was so kind..." myheartsisters.org/2026/03/22/a...
"Data centers, which store and process immense amounts of data to train #AI, are so hot their ‘heat island’ effect is raising temperatures up to 6 miles away, and impacting 343 million people worldwide, study finds" fortune.com/2026/04/01/a...
Words matter in medicine: Heart FAILURE: It's time to finally change the F-word (my Editorial in the British Medical Journal )#BMJ openheart.bmj.com/content/open...
What I wish I'd known before hospital discharge: "When I was sent home from the coronary care unit at my local heart hospital, I felt sure that every twinge I felt meant another heart attack - and that nobody in my family knew anything about cardiology..." www.bmj.com/content/360/...
Hurtful words matter in medicine. My editorial in the British Medical Journal explains why: "Heart Failure: It's time to finally change the F-word" openheart.bmj.com/content/open...
myheartsisters.org/81127-2/ Why I'm no longer writing my 'HEART SISTERS' blog (after publishing new posts every Sunday morning since 2009) but still over 900 accessible (& free!) articles specifically for women living with heart disease. You can leave comments at any post!❤️ www.myheartsisters.org
"A publicly-funded university using public money to fight its own employees.” 🇨🇦 In 2022, Montreal's #McGill University law professors voted to unionize. So McGill paid $1.1 million to OUTSIDE LAWYERS who specialize in fighting unions. Then it got worse. therover.ca/mcgill-spent...
How a lowly patient wormed her way into a prestigious cardiology journal... Find this article and more on women's health and becoming a patient on my new Substack site carolynthomas123456.substack.com/p/can-a-pati...
My editorial in the British Medical Journal: "Heart FAILURE" It's Time to Finally Change the F-word..." openheart.bmj.com/content/open...