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Then I recalled our own family experience.
You know, when I first read the President's letter, I was touched by the love and total commitment of Kathryn and Kristina's parents. The way they dropped everything for their kids was fantastic. Then I recalled our own family experience and my admiration for them knew no bounds. Like other parents faced with frightening news, they required great courage and dedication to cope. They also required ….
JGH
Today, heart attack patients can leave the hospital sooner than ever before… sometimes in as little as 3 days!
It's a fact that has brought smiles to so many faces. Just the thought of going home can act as a therapy. But there remains a challenge… and it presents a major obstacle to recovery. It is the stress caused by fear of a repeat heart attack!
Patients who worry about the possibility of another attack are more likely to have one. It is a matter of mindset, not a matter of medicine, and it is to reduce this deadly threat – to both patient and family – that I ask for your help today.
Previous research shows that it is one's beliefs about heart disease that plays the key role in recovery. How patients feel about their condition, how their spouse and other family members feel about it; all contribute to a complete recovery. More work is needed to develop actionable programs to help patients and spouses conquer the fear of repeat heart attack and the inevitable stress that comes with it.
Your continued support can help them stay home for good!
Understanding that patient recovery after a medical miracle is as important as the miracle itself, research today focuses on …
CMA
“If physicians don't look after themselves, who will look after the rest of us?”
Honourable Roy Romanow, Q.C., Commissioner, Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada First, let me thank you for your generosity in supporting the Canadian Medical Foundation's (CMF) Student Bursary Program. To date, more than $3.4 million has been raised, helping over 1,900 medical students to become the physicians of tomorrow. My concern is what tomorrow will bring.
As you are painfully aware, with 15% of Canadians having no family physician, patient loads have skyrocketed. The burden this places on each and every one of us calls for extraordinary effort and considerable personal sacrifice. It is a situation that has taken its toll.
Physician health programs are now seeing dramatic increases in the number of physicians seeking assistance for stress, burn-out, anxiety and depression. Many of your colleagues may be at risk of feeling overwhelmed at some point in the future.
It was the 2008 Canadian Physician Health Study, by Drs. Erica Frank and Michael Leiter that put some real figures to these disturbing trends. In the first national study of its kind in Canada, involving more than 8,000 practicing physicians, they reported that …
OHF
If it were someone you loved...
Susan Arnold came to us in 2007 with “flesh-eating disease” and a 20% chance of survival. Now she's nearly recovered and awaiting the birth of her first grandchild.
In 2006, Nancy Clark had to rush her daughter Sydney to OTMH with a severe reaction to aspirin. Today, Sydney is a vibrant 19-year-old in her third year of university.
And Christine Shin almost lost her life, as well as the lives of her premature twins, in 2008. Today, Emma and Selina are happy two-year-olds, and Christine is considering having a third child.
Stories like these truly reflect the real impact you have on real people's lives by supporting …
