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Karen Lasser

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Senior Editor at JAMA, digital nomad in Florence, Italy, Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Boston Medical Center/Boston University

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Karen Lasser @karenlasser.bsky.social · Jan 25

I would say that he has an alcohol use disorder, which is a chronic illness. I still don’t like him though.

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JAMA @jama.com · Jan 22

This JAMA Insights explores how considering clinical factors and potential exposures during the premigration, migration, and postmigration phases of immigration could help clinicians more effectively treat patients born outside the US.

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Ashish K Jha @ashishkjha.bsky.social · Jan 6

I was asked on This Week with George Stephanopolous about the Surgeon General warning on alcohol

My take?

Its important to raise awareness that there is likely a link between alcohol and various cancers

Even when drinking at moderate levels

But what it does it mean practically?

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