James Hamblin

James Hamblin James Hamblin, MD, MPH, is a preventive medicine physician and lecturer in public health at Yale. James Hamblin is a writer and senior editor at The Atlantic.

He writes the health column and hosts a video series called If Our Bodies Could Talk, for which he was a finalist in the 2015 Webby awards for Best Web Personality. His work has been featured in/on The New York Times, Politico magazine, NPR, BBC, MSNBC, New York, The Awl, and even mentioned in passing on The Colbert Report. Time named him among the 140 people to follow on Twitter in 2014, Greatist

named him among the most influential people in health media in 2015, Refinery29 listed him as a person to watch in 2015, and BuzzFeed called him "the most delightful MD ever," though he is not as delightful as William Carlos Williams. After finishing medical school, Hamblin did three years of medical residency before joining The Atlantic to develop a health section and, at least for now, work entirely in media.

Suspicious
11/05/2024

Suspicious

05/23/2023
02/28/2023

I never understood the impulse to buy milk before a severe weather event. Like in case we lose power we're gonna want to have lots of ... milk?

02/12/2023

Now that sports betting is legal, Super Bowl Sunday means Americans are finally able to come home from church and do all 7 deadly sins in one sitting.

11/06/2022

At 1:59 am tonight your phone should go back to reading 1:00 am. The reason that time changes occur at this hour on Saturday nights is to mess with drunk people.

Happy Halloween from an angel and a bat
10/31/2022

Happy Halloween from an angel and a bat

10/05/2022

Just because it’s my birthday doesn’t mean I want to be treated differently from any other day of the year. I’d simply like a modest cake to be given to me by people joyfully singing my name every day of the year.

09/27/2022

Today NASA sent a powerful message to asteroids. Go hit some other planet. We’re perfectly capable of destroying ourselves.

Here's this week's newsletter ...
09/24/2022

Here's this week's newsletter ...

Denialism goes mainstream

09/18/2022

In a bodega the guy behind me tried to make fun of me for buying masks. I threw him off by asking why he was buying masks (he wasn’t). I checked out and left while he was still insisting to me that he wasn’t. When they go third grade, you go fourth.

09/15/2022

The reason COVID restrictions/guidelines have been rolled back discreetly rather than triumphantly is that 400-500 people still dying every day in the U.S. and no one is comfortable saying that's acceptable. Only comfortable acting like it.

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