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   "Except you can’t show a topless woman on TV - and you can’t defibrillate a woman in a bra. So victims of heart attacks on TV are *always* male. Did you know that a woman having a heart attack is more likely to have back or jaw pain than chest or left arm pain? I didn’t - because I’ve never seen a woman having a heart attack. I’ve been trained in CPR and Advanced First Aid by the Red Cross over 15 times in my life, the videos and booklets always have a guy and say the same thing about clutching his chest and/or bicep.
   
   And people laugh when I tell them women are still invisible in this world."

   distractedbyshinyobjects

   re: feministing - for women, heart attacks look different

   Things I did not know, but should.

   (via elfgrove)

   This is a post that might save a life. 

   (via str8nochaser)

   My mom worked for 25 years as an ER nurse and is convinced that a lot of women die simply because folks only know heart attack symptoms that occur in males. 

   (via darkjez)

   • Sep 11, 2012 12:48 pm
   • distractedbyshinyobjects
   • Reblogged from becauseiamawoman
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