Here is a great Twitter thread by @olga_basso that highlights how COVID-19 information has changed. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1589258672806715392.html
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What if air travel worked like healthcare?
Podcast – Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy
Breaking COVID-19 Misinformation
Barriers: Breaking or Building?
A short but powerful video. Definitely one worth watching.
Coffee…connections…comfort
As many people know, Alzheimer’s can be a very isolating journey for both patients and their caregivers. Memory Cafes help address these issues by providing people like Doug and Connie Moore with opportunities to connect with others over conversation and coffee.
To find Comfort Cafes in Canada, visit this website.
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Tweet Worth Sharing
Every so often, a tweet is encountered that is too good, and indeed too true, not to share. Given how quickly the number of retweets is increasing, other people feel the same way. With any luck, some of the people doing the retweeting are physicians.
Doctor: Donβt confuse your google search with my 6 years at medical school.
Patient: Donβt confuse the 1-hour lecture you had on my condition with my 10 years of living with it.
— ππ‘π«π¨π§π’πππ₯π₯π² πππ«ππ‘ (@potsiegirlsarah) January 11, 2019
What? Listen to Patients?
The importance of the patient is becoming more recognized in the healthcare sector. However, in many instances, including the pharmaceutical area, the patient is seen as simply something to talk to or to talk about.
According to a recent blog post by Mike Rea, this stance is limited and limiting in terms of who patients are and what they have to offer. As he asks in his post.
But, instead of talking to patients, what if we started listening? Not just to what they ‘need’, but what else they want? There are so many incredible groups out there now – potent patient groups (MMRF, MDA, Savvy Patients and more), who want to talk to us, who want to share. But, start to listen, and there will be a hundred hands that go up to stop you doing that.
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