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	<title>Robert Ridge</title>
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	<description>President and CEO, Canadian MedicAlert Foundation</description>
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		<title>Taking Your Health in Your Hands</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Ridge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short story about… washing your hands? Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis was a Hungarian physician who pioneered one of the most simple and effective techniques to save and protect lives:  hand-washing.  This was back in the mid 1900’s.  Years before germs were &#8230; <a href="http://blog.medicalert.ca/robert/index.php/2012/04/your-health-in-your-hands/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mad Habits</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Ridge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you think of the most important technological advances in our society, what comes to mind? A new drug?  A new type of computer? “Green” cars? What if we had a foolproof way to change our habits? Bad habits that &#8230; <a href="http://blog.medicalert.ca/robert/index.php/2012/03/mad-habits/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Invest in Yourself</title>
		<link>http://blog.medicalert.ca/robert/index.php/2012/02/invest_in_yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Ridge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Health I just finished reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan.  I thoroughly enjoyed and would highly recommend both of these books – they’ll change the way you think about food and eating. One &#8230; <a href="http://blog.medicalert.ca/robert/index.php/2012/02/invest_in_yourself/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Can You Make Death Wait?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Ridge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Heart and Stroke Foundation recently launched a campaign entitled ‘Make Death Wait’.  You may have seen the TV commercials, narrated by ‘Death’. I feel that one of the purposes of the campaign is to cause more people to understand and assess &#8230; <a href="http://blog.medicalert.ca/robert/index.php/2012/02/can_you_make_death_wait/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The EHR: Let&#8217;s talk openly about privacy&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.medicalert.ca/robert/index.php/2012/01/ehr-privacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Ridge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember the first time you went shopping and the checkout person asked for your name, postal code, email address… before even getting to your order? I know I was a little hesitant about giving away this personal information, &#8230; <a href="http://blog.medicalert.ca/robert/index.php/2012/01/ehr-privacy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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