Selected writing

She writes it all herself, in her own time, for nearly 51,000 followers.

No agency. No paid promotion. When a piece is written in partnership, it says so in the first line.

These essays are published in Romanian. Summaries below are in English.

01  The pieces

“Understanding cardiovascular risk in women with breast cancer”

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Cardio-oncology · [date] Read the full piece in Romanian →

“Your results came back fine.”

On the line almost every laboratory calculates, and almost nobody reads.

A patient is told their blood work is normal. She turns the page around and points at eGFR — the measure of kidney function that sits on nearly every panel and goes unnoticed. What follows is an argument about why the kidneys and the heart cannot be assessed separately.

Prevention · Kidneys and heart · [date] Read the full piece in Romanian →

“It isn't menopause that ages a woman fastest.”

Why everyone talks about hot flushes and almost nobody talks about muscle.

Starting from the weekly search for a celebrity's anti-ageing secret, she turns to what actually changes after 50 — the slow, nearly invisible loss of muscle mass that the bathroom scale conceals rather than reveals, and what it means for cardiovascular risk and independence.

Women's health · Menopause · [date] Read the full piece in Romanian →

“My appointment was at 10:20 and I went in at 10:45.”

Not an accusation. An observation — and one that deserves an honest answer.

An essay on why consultations run late. At 10:20 it isn't an hour that walks in, it's a person, and people rarely arrive in the simplified form the schedule assumes. A defence of the decision to stay in the room when there is still something to see.

From the consulting room · [date] Read the full piece in Romanian →

02  Where they appear first

The writing lives on Facebook. That's where it's read.

Nearly 51,000 people follow her on cardio-oncology, cardiovascular prevention, women's heart health, and the distance between what gets promised and what can be proven.

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Pieces are published first on Facebook and reproduced here with light editing.

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