Harvard med; specialist blood/cancer/HIV; staff writer New Yorker; contributor NYRB; author How Doctors Think; coauthor Your Medical Mind w/ Dr Pamela Hartzband
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Why Storytelling Is Part of Being a Good Doctor | The New Yorker—The Scalpel and the Pen, published today newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…
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Handy and authoritative: @HelenBranswell @matthewherper compare the Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines for young children statnews.com/2022/06/20/comp… via @statnews
Plus a video youtu.be/Nq8okEFGuUA via @YouTube @alissa_ambrose @HoganAlex
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Something I've just published in @NYDailyNews on some public health lessons for our time from, yes, Hanukah and the struggle of the Maccabees.
What?
Please take a look.
nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-o…
Understanding the Body Electric: published today in the New Yorker. How electricity drives so much of our lives—in health and illness newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…
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This is amazing. nytimes.com/2021/11/17/nyreg…
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So important that Nobel Peace Prize awarded to 2 courageous journalists defending press freedom, under attack worldwide. 👋to @mariaressa Dmitri muratov.
What Does the Microbiome Do? | by Jerome Groopman | The New York Review of Books: a rigorous look at what we know and don’t about the microbiome in health and disease, despite prevalent claims of its central role in our biology nybooks.com/articles/2021/10…
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Big congratulations to @PeterHotez recipient of the 2021 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation David E. Rogers Award - saying he’s“improved the lives of billions of people through his relentless work to combat some of the most common debilitating diseases around the world.”
Mazel Tov! Hatzlacha on finishing Motherland Julia – at Massachusetts, USA
Beyond humbled and excited to receive this grant and be in such fine company. Thank you to the @silversfound and @eccobooks!
May her memory be a blessing – at Brookline, MA
My mom’s obit in today’s @BostonGlobe is longer than some of the pieces I write for them. 😜 She was a faithful print subscriber and deserves every word. I love you, Mom.
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Have you tweeted #DadsForGunSafety today? Help me send a message to Washington DC. We need 1,000,000 shares. Do it for Jaime. Do it for the other victims of gun violence. Do it for your family that has not yet been impacted by gun violence.
#DadsForGunSafety
And why it’s premature to advocate for a single shot in the absence of data. If there were data, fine. But these results reinforce prudence of 2 shots with mRNA based vaccines
Very good neutralizing antibody levels for at least 7 months after 2 doses of mRNA vaccine (and likely years)
@NEJM today nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
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Pandemics aren’t merely medical: outbreaks are also driven by war and poverty, by economic collapse and social chaos. “Any hope of containing future outbreaks will require tackling deeply rooted global problems,” @groopman says. nyer.cm/TXwM5Tq
Even before Covid 19, largely conquered infections like polio and highly contagious cholera were exploding due to geopolitical upheaval
“How can it be that we are threatened not only by insects and filth and the frailties of our own bodies but also by something as intangible as our beliefs?” @groopman writes about a new book that considers some of the geopolitical drivers of pandemics. nyer.cm/wOBmjQr
Beyond the Vaccine—my piece in this week’s New Yorker: How we need to broaden our thinking and address geopolitics to stem current and future outbreaks: a compelling case made by Dr Peter Hotez newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…