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There is an urgent need for clear, accurate communications in health and health sciences to educate inform and to counter a flood of misinformation. Avis Favaro is a veteran health journalist working to share stories via podcasts, television, the web, along with other opportunities to connect with Canadians

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Avis Favaro

Early in my career, I began to develop a preoccupation with diseases I was reporting about - explained to me by a psychologist as a form of 'temporary hypochondria'. It happens to medical students. Thus it became a humous tag line on social media - as I self identified as the 'network hypochondriac.' Truth is, it also shaped me into an more understanding and empathetic journalist who understands the pain of illness-the suffering of patients- and triumph of successful treatment.