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Praise for Tilda Shalof - A smart patient knows more about coping with their disease than their physician, and Tilda Shalof's insights into the rigors of heart surgery are even more provocative since she brings a nurse's wisdom to her own operation. -- Dr. Mehmet Oz, host of the The Dr. Oz Show , on Opening My Heart - Shalof has seen it all, and writes about it, too. -- Calgary Herald - Grey's Anatomy should be so compelling. -- Globe and Mail on The Making of a Nurse

Praise for Tilda Shalof - A smart patient knows more about coping with their disease than their physician, and Tilda Shalof's insights into the rigors of heart surgery are even more provocative since she brings a nurse's wisdom to her own operation. -- Dr. Mehmet Oz, host of the The Dr. Oz Show, on Opening My Heart - Shalof has seen it all, and writes about it, too. -- Calgary Herald - Grey's Anatomy should be so compelling. -- Globe and Mail on The Making of a Nurse

Praise for Tilda Shalof - A smart patient knows more about coping with their disease than their physician, and Tilda Shalof's insights into the rigors of heart surgery are even more provocative since she brings a nurse's wisdom to her own operation. -- Dr. Mehmet Oz, host of the The Dr. Oz Show, on Opening My Heart - Shalof has seen it all, and writes about it, too. -- Calgary Herald - Grey's Anatomy should be so compelling. -- Globe and Mail on The Making of a Nurse

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TILDA SHALOF, RN, BScN, CNCC (C), has been a staff nurse in the Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Toronto General Hospital for over twenty years. She is the author of five books about her experiences in nursing, including A Nurse's Story, The Making of a Nurse, and Camp Nurse, and the editor of a collection of nurse's stories, Lives in the Balance. She is an outspoken patient advocate, passionate nurse leader, public speaker, and media commentator. She lives in Toronto with her husband and their two sons. JUDITH SHAMIAN was the president of the International Council of Nurses from 2013-17. Dr. Shamian is also the former president and CEO of the Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) and past president of the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA). She is also a professor at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto, and was the Executive Director of the Canadian federal government's Office of Nursing Policy for five years. In addition to her extensive international work, she was vice president of Nursing at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto for ten years and has held various academic positions since 1989. Dr. Shamian has published and spoken extensively nationally and internationally on a wide range of topics.She is also a mother of three daughters and grandmother of sixteen. She lives in Toronto.

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