Harvard med; specialist blood/cancer/HIV; staff writer New Yorker; contributor NYRB; author How Doctors Think; coauthor Your Medical Mind w/ Dr Pamela Hartzband
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.
https://t.co/HWUXzuT2Sz
Understanding the Body Electric: published today in the New Yorker. How electricity drives so much of our lives—in health and illness https://t.co/iI9y0Uzfgl
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 https://t.co/WbVzi3tV1m
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.”
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.
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
My mom died this week after a long illness. She was a beautiful person who devoted her life to children. Please send her love and wishes for safe passage ❤️
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
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. https://t.co/oXvngfjfHo
“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. https://t.co/VQBBGt1EmA
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 https://t.co/OZl2y9NcMe