lisa machado
@Iamlisamachado
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Patient advocate | Living with cancer | Journalist | Dog lover | Coffee with lots of cream & Springsteen. Instagram: iamlisamachado | TikTok: iamlisa_machado
Joined February 2020
Quality of life and survival aren't the same. @patientvoiceca @cmlnet @icmlf @LLSusa @LLSCanada @survivornetca @raredisorders #leukemia #cancer #livedexperience #patientvoices
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Imagine if we could make cancer therapies tolerable and quality of life focused? @survivornetca @LLSCanada @cancersociety @OHSUNews #symptomscience #cancer #livedexperience #qualityoflife
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We have research to prove that #cancer doesn't care how old you are, so isn't it time the @cantaskforce updated #screeningguidelines? @CancerCanuck @coloncanada @cancersociety @ccranorg #cancer #livedexperience #life
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RT @MaggieKeresteci: Paper bags to the rescue? Really? What about the crisis in #PrimaryCare or the need for solutions #ER departments? Wha…
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I liked the new @thenfb film #stolentime, but I'd really hoped the execs from #forprofitltc would have been put on the spot. To see the change we need, we have to make sure they know we are watching. #caregivers #livedexperience #ltc #dignity
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Long-term care is still not OK. Until we truly recognize the value of the lives we care for and the essential roles of loved ones, nothing good is going to happen with LTC. In fact, it’s just going to get worse. @healthing_ca
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It's unconscionable that non-profit organizations are consistently the target of bitter criticisms about funding — where they get it from, what they use it for, how much of it is used to pay them. Such a tired debate. @UncharitableMov @cmrherder @IRPP
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Kate Ellis was diagnosed with breast cancer twice. She calls the anxiety of uncertainty a "special kind of hell." @healthing_ca @rethinktweet @CanCertainty @cancersociety #cancer #trauma #mentalhealth
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No one chooses to be sick. @raredisorders @RareDiseases @curecc #cancer #rarediseases #patientvoices #mentalhealth
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Sick changes everything, whether you are the patient or the caregiver. #patientvoices #livedexperience #cancer
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RT @CdnCMLNetwork: #love #CML Despite a dismal 10-per-cent expectation of survival, there once was a mom who took a shot. Her son is now a…
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RT @CdnCMLNetwork: Here's what some top advocates have to say about the findings of recent patient and doc survey by @Novartis aimed at ide…
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There's a one or the other vibe that hangs over the debate around public healthcare versus private, but there are actually many shades in between, and it’s critical that we don’t ignore that. @healthing_ca #universalhealthcare
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RT @TO_dpr: 🤔Thinking about experiences of #PatientPartners in #Research. Bad experiences compound and have potential to contribute to burn…
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Our med schools are admitting only 167 more doctors for mandatory postgrad training than they did 10 years ago. @CBCNews #healthcare #doctors
Canada's medical schools are admitting only 167 more doctors for mandatory postgraduate training than they did 10 years ago, even as the population has increased by about five million people. .
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