Category: Patients’ blog

Aug 30 2021

Patients' blog, Reflections

Dystonia: one patient’s surprising adventure to help find answers to doctors’ questions

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How could I help - me with no medical training? Well, I excel at making lists. I know how to ask questions.

Jul 09 2020

COVID-19, Patients' blog, Reflections

A patient’s experience of COVID-19

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The last breath a person takes before death is an exhalation, to expire. I was trying so hard. I was so tired of trying. I said to myself, “Could I...

Apr 24 2020

COVID-19, Patients' blog, Reflections

Déjà vu in the time of COVID-19

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There will be a return to regular life, although it may not look the same.

Apr 22 2020

COVID-19, Patients' blog, Reflections

Not every cough is COVID-19

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As I described Thomas’ symptoms to my friend over-the-phone, she interrupted me to ask, “Is that him that I can hear breathing?”

Dec 03 2019

Patients' blog, Reflections

The power of patient and caregiver partnership

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Maggie Keresteci is a caregiver to her sibling who lives with a life altering disease and is committed to advocating for solutions that will improve the lives of Canadian patients...

Apr 28 2019

Patients' blog

Possible

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Brianna Cheng is a MSc Epidemiology student in the Class of 2020 at McGill University.       is it possible to mourn the living?   time’s grasp on youth...

Feb 19 2019

Patients' blog

Home care nurses need more support to meet the needs of complex patients

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Marcy White is a writer and special needs advocate.   In just one year, my son, Jacob, was put on Bi-Pap in the PICU on four separate occasions. Only a...

Sep 08 2017

Patients' blog

Sicker than I’d ever been before: a patient’s experience of sepsis

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Ray Schachter is a lawyer in Vancouver. He is on the Executive Committee of the Global Sepsis Alliance and Canadian Sepsis Foundation   In March 1996, I was a healthy,...

Mar 22 2017

Patients' blog, Reflections

New territory: failing to plan for the unthinkable

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Sarah Currie lives in Ottawa, Ontario   I changed jobs this week. On Monday, my first day, when I should have been primarily concerned with learning the office microwave-cleaning rota...

May 02 2016

Medical aid in dying, Patients' blog

Curt’s Story: An experience with Physician Assisted Dying

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This story is about my family’s experience with PAD (Physician Assisted Dying). Our hope is that it will be of some help to others following, or contemplating following, the same...

Nov 20 2015

Dawn Richards, Patients' blog

A resource to inform patients and the public about clinical trials

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Dawn Richards provides project management consultant services to the Canadian organization Network of Networks (N2). She also works as a patient consultant for other organizations.   Have you ever wondered...

Sep 08 2015

Patients' blog, Peggy Cumming

My Best Life

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Peggy Cumming, is a wife, mother, grandmother of 6, sister, niece, cousin and friend, as well as a teacher – retired after 34 years in the classroom – and an...

Aug 07 2015

Graeme Rocker, Patients' blog

A New Equilibrium: A physician’s journey beyond radical prostate surgery – Part Five

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Graeme Rocker is a professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax Editor’s note: Part I of this series appeared as a Humanities article in CMAJ; parts II , III and IV...

Jul 29 2015

Janet Whitehead, Patients' blog

Radon-induced lung cancer can be prevented

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Janet Whitehead works and lives in Vancouver, BC. She is the mother of 3 children and has a granddaughter.   Five years ago I was diagnosed with lung cancer. I...