HeyJaredPatient. from Mary Elizabeth Williams
This Substack is a little-known place where we can get together... about our current healthcare fiasco. A MEWsletter from the award-winning journalist, author, and Stage 4 cancer/clinical trial veteran. Knock a little louder, sugar.
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How to not make the Cornell rape story worse (opens the original)
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Please support Patient by becoming a paid subscriber. Your subscriptions help keep this thing going, and I’m grateful.Subscribe nowYou can also contribute a one-time donation in any amount of your choosing, if that’s more your jam.DonateLike you, I’ve been watching intently over the last few days as the coverage of the
Sunday Funday: French things that amused me this week (opens the original)
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Please support Patient by becoming a paid subscriber. Your subscriptions help keep this thing going, and I’m grateful.You can also contribute a one-time donation in any amount of your choosing, if that’s more your jam.DonateHello again from Scotland, where I am doing a few of the things I love most in the world — drinking a cup of tea and listening to jazz while it’s raining outside my window. To the people who say things like, “You can be happy a
Sunday Funday: New York City things that amused me this week (opens the original)
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Greetings from the last official Sunday of summer, where I am traveling, enjoying the lingering warmth while the leaves gently turn color, and bracing for the cold damp of Scotland. I present you this week a truncated Funday, because my laptop chose a fun time to crap out. And so, while I have more to say on my little jaunt to the US of A, for now, please enjoy a few random images from Mamdani’s communist hellscape. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image
I’ve studied genocide, and Ed Sheeran is a little bitch. (opens the original)
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Please support Patient by becoming a paid subscriber. Your subscriptions help keep this thing going, and I’m grateful.Subscribe nowYou can also contribute a one-time donation in any amount of your choosing, if that’s more your jam.DonateIf, like me, you could not have imagined mere days ago ever giving a single solitary fuck about the going
Sunday Funday: Gotham City things that amused me this week (opens the original)
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Please support Patient by becoming a paid subscriber. Your subscriptions help keep this thing going, and I’m grateful.Subscribe nowYou can also contribute a one-time donation in any amount of your choosing, if that’s more your jam.DonateSalutations from NYC, where I am briefly in town for some medical testing, which so far is going well. I&
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