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Jennifer Hamilton MD PhD

@jeneralist@mstdn.science

Family Practice doc, public health advocate, and occasional maker of liquid nitrogen ice cream. Rides a bike to work some days. Formerly on med-mastodon.

Posts are not medical advice, and I'm not speaking for my employer.

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Jennifer Hamilton MD PhD @jeneralist@mstdn.science · Jun 18, 2026

Replying to @riley@toot.cat

@riley@toot.cat @the_wub@mastodon.social @Jumpmed@mastodon.social @poleguy@mastodon.social Ah, yes. And buried in the PARACHUTE trial was a warning not to trust the abstract -- since people were jumping off a propeller plane that wasn't moving.

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Jennifer Hamilton MD PhD @jeneralist@mstdn.science · Jun 18, 2026

Replying to @withaveeay@mastodon.scot

@withaveeay@mastodon.scot The article in The Lancet that the BBC is referencing for this piece specifically looked at England, not the full UK. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00918-9/fulltext

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Jennifer Hamilton MD PhD @jeneralist@mstdn.science · Jun 18, 2026

Replying to @the_wub@mastodon.social

@the_wub@mastodon.social @riley@toot.cat @Jumpmed@mastodon.social @poleguy@mastodon.social Back in 2003, the British Medical Journal published a tongue-in-cheek article in its end of year issue, pointing out that we couldn't evaluate how well parachutes worked because we didn't have a study that used placebo parachutes for people jumping out of planes: https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459

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Jennifer Hamilton MD PhD @jeneralist@mstdn.science · Jun 18, 2026

Replying to @renardboy@mastodon.social

@renardboy@mastodon.social I didn't find specific mention of which HPV vaccine were used when in the Lancet article mentioned by the BBC, except for this: "Since the HPV vaccine offered to those born before 2000 was bivalent, it is unlikely to have provided more than 90% protection..." The bivalent HPV vaccine was called Cervarix in the US. Gardasil came later -- quadravalent, but strains were chosen to cover 2 associated with cervical cancer and 2 others associated with genital warts. Now using Gardasil 9.

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Jennifer Hamilton MD PhD @jeneralist@mstdn.science · Jun 18, 2026

Great news: in the 5 years 2020-2024, know how many 20-24 year olds died of cervical cancer in England? ZERO. That's the first cohort of folks that age who were offered the HPV vaccine when they were 12 or 13. Before the vaccine was used, on average about 20 people in that age range died of cervical cancer in a 5 year span. We're looking forward to more dramatic results as that group enters their 30s & 40s. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c621z28z138o #HPV #Gardasil #vaccines

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Jennifer Hamilton MD PhD @jeneralist@mstdn.science · May 15, 2026

Replying to @daisy@cloudisland.nz

@daisy@cloudisland.nz I am once again delighted by the things I discover on Mastodon.

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Jennifer Hamilton MD PhD @jeneralist@mstdn.science · May 06, 2026

Replying to @giflian@techhub.social

@giflian@techhub.social Thanks!

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Jennifer Hamilton MD PhD @jeneralist@mstdn.science · May 06, 2026

Replying to @giflian@techhub.social

@giflian@techhub.social This is the first I'm hearing of the link to the 1918 flu. Could you point me towards more info?

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Jennifer Hamilton MD PhD @jeneralist@mstdn.science · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @Troggie@beige.party

@Troggie I told the nurse doing the procedure that I put them in for other people, that I knew what every piece of equipment on that tray was, that I WOULD tense up when I saw her reach for the thing that pinches and pulls the cervix (tenaculum), and that she might want to have someone in the room specifically to keep me talking about something else. Anything else. So she found out more about my favorite movies than she was expecting to.

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Jennifer Hamilton MD PhD @jeneralist@mstdn.science · Apr 24, 2026

Replying to @clifff@shakedown.social

@clifff Passing a Ferrari while I was riding my bike was glorious.

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Jennifer Hamilton MD PhD @jeneralist@mstdn.science · Apr 19, 2026

Replying to @epicdemiologist@wandering.shop

@epicdemiologist My sympathies to you & your neighbours.

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Jennifer Hamilton MD PhD @jeneralist@mstdn.science · Apr 17, 2026

Replying to @bitinn@mastodon.gamedev.place

@bitinn No requirements, but has set productivity goals that are unrealistic unless you use AI based tools and don't spend time checking their work.

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Jennifer Hamilton MD PhD @jeneralist@mstdn.science · Apr 12, 2026

Replying to @Ashedryden@xoxo.zone

@Ashedryden I let my cats' vet use it for their visits. My cats have boring social histories (nothing more exciting than occasional catnip use). But when medical patients come to me, I don't use it. People already have a hard enough time trusting doctors -- of only because we've been made the human- facing end of the med-pharma-insurance complex.

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Jennifer Hamilton MD PhD @jeneralist@mstdn.science · Apr 07, 2026

Replying to @FolksVelo@mas.to

@FolksVelo Is this real? None of those bikes looked like they had saddle bags, front bags, batteries, etc. They all looked very stripped-down compared to what I see in Philadelphia USA as commuting bikes.

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Jennifer Hamilton MD PhD @jeneralist@mstdn.science · Jan 04, 2026

Replying to @anton@icosahedron.website

@anton@icosahedron.website I had built up a group of followers over years -- and I think that in a day, my new account has about twice as many. Hit that follow button if you're interested.

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Jennifer Hamilton MD PhD @jeneralist@mstdn.science · Jan 04, 2026

Replying to @2qx@mastodon.social

@2qx@mastodon.social By "big one", do you mean smallpox? If so, I'm old enough that I was vaccinated back in the day, but I doubt I'm still immune.

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Jennifer Hamilton MD PhD @jeneralist@mstdn.science · Jan 03, 2026

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Citizen ❎️❎️ @AnnonBudgie@theblower.au

Hi! Jennifer Hamilton here, formerly of med-mastodon.com. That server shut down suddenly. If you followed me before for my toots about #vaccines, #PublicHealth, #FamilyMedicine, my gripes about #ElectronicMedicalRecords #EMR, or even just a few #caturday pictures and chats about bicycling, I'm on mstdn.science now. The old #MedMastodon went down suddenly in the last week of December 2025, and I don't have a list of my old followers. Please boost this so they can find me!

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