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@jameshamblin

Writer , Lecturer , Preventive Medicine MD/MPH

Brooklyn
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    Aug 14

    Email signature idea “here are some additional !!!! if I didn’t use enough. please put them wherever makes you feel appreciated and like I’m friendly and fun but still cool and professional. thanks.”

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  2. 5 hours ago

    “If the president’s closest advisers believe that he is morally and intellectually unfit for his high office, they have a duty to do their utmost to remove him from it, by the lawful means at hand.”

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  3. 6 hours ago

    Solid case for a nongendered singular pronoun

    In Opinion In an anonymous Op-Ed, a senior Trump administration official says he and others are working ​to frustrate the president’s “misguided impulses.”
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  4. 23 hours ago

    Hunter Thompson memo from 1972 on the distinction between bias and lying

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  5. Sep 4

    Thanks to Martha for the contribution to this cookbook

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  6. Sep 3

    People protesting Nike in favor of Under Armour may be forgetting that its CEO withdrew in protest from Trump's manufacturing council after his equivocation on Charlottesville and that Under Armour's top athlete is Steph Curry who led his team in declining a White House invite.

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  7. Sep 1

    Finally found a self help book that gets me

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  8. Sep 1

    Texas will have to be evacuated

    Truck carrying Axe body spray explodes in Texas:
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  9. Sep 1

    It’s telling that once banal platitudes about national unity, integrity, and respectful discourse now read as obvious subtweets about the sitting president.

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  10. Aug 30

    A reminder how much has changed in the last few years, yesterday I was talking with a genomics researcher who said when Obama was in office he summoned her and some colleagues for a chat just because he was curious to learn more about the microbiome.

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  11. Aug 30

    I just saw a guy in a tie walk out of an office building as a garden hose burst, and he got drenched. I so wish I could offer him a Mentos.

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    Aug 29

    Whew on Jordan Peterson’s all-meat diet is so good:

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  13. Aug 28

    I had to look into why people are reporting being cured by meat. Like other extreme restriction diets, benefits seems to be more about psychology than nutrition, applying a sense of order to a sense of chaos. There are ideally healthier ways to do that.

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  14. Aug 27

    People ask what to do about absurd medical bills. Apart from political action, the recourse is journalism. Hospitals invent the amount they want to charge, and they can lower it. When a story goes public and a provider gets called out, the bill tends to shrink or disappear.

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  15. Aug 27

    This 44 year-old teacher and Ironman triathlete had a heart attack (somehow) and had to spend four nights in the hospital. Despite being insured by Aetna he came out owing *checks story again* $108,951.31

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    Aug 26

    There must be SOME way for TV writers to let viewers know a woman detective/reporter/superhero is tough besides having her drink whiskey from the bottle at odd hours of the day

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  17. Aug 25

    Saying Obama is American, defending the free press, voting against a healthcare bill that would’ve left 20+ million additional people uninsured ... What now constitutes valor and conviction might’ve once been seen as basic decency or duty of a public servant.

    “No, m’aam.” How many elected officials would do this now?
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    Aug 24

    The secret's out - busted!

    Infowars host alleges that Hurricane Lane, which is threatening Hawaii, has been split in two by an energy beam shot from Antarctica, possibly by John Kerry
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  19. Aug 24

    Friday night. Time to kick back and crank up some Ken Burns.

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  20. Aug 24

    My favorite writing advice for academics isn’t to ‘dumb it down.’ It’s to assume a reader isn’t especially familiar with your area of expertise but is overall more intelligent than you.

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    Aug 24

    This is a critical distinction in talking about & . Comfort-focused care takes all of the energy & effort of disease-focused care & puts it into maximizing . It’s a change of priorities based on patient & family needs/goals.

    He will not receive treatment but will continue to receive care.
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