Jim Hammerand

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Journalist, father of two, pro-democracy. Better things are possible. 
💻: Managing editor of Medical Design & Outsourcing magazine
🌎: Edmonds, WA
📸: instagram.com/jimpatham
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Clouds over Edmonds, WA are letting us view the solar eclipse without special lenses.
Moment of impact: a pileated woodpecker hunts for insects in a dead tree stump
Air Premia Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner #HL8389 test flight from Paine Field in rainy skies today
An experimental Boeing 777X test aircraft (#N779XY) flew over today on its way to Seattle’s Boeing Field.
Snowy Brothers and Baker viewed from Edmonds today
Olympic peaks peeking out over clouds last night, photographed from Edmonds, Washington
I recently spoke with Dr. Philip Adamson, chief medical officer of Abbott's heart failure business, to catch up on how #SARSCoV2 affects the cardiovascular system, #microclotting, long-term damage from #covid19 and how physicians are thinking differently about extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (#ECMO) to save patients' lives. https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/abbott-heart-failure-covid-mechanisms-cardiovascular/
COVID-19's mechanisms are becoming clearer, Abbott's heart failure CMO says

In most diseases we've learned how to treat, we're able to do so "because we understand the fundamental mechanism," Dr. Philip Adamson said.

Medical Design and Outsourcing
Gorgeous sunset tonight over the Salish Sea and the twin peaks of The Brothers
Caught a couple cloudy Boeing widebody test flights out of Paine Field today: a #Boeing787-10 Dreamliner (#n17015) for United and a #Boeing777 freighter (#b221x) for China Postal Airlines.
I finally got a good look at the very last Boeing 747 (#n863gt) this morning as it left Paine Field and banked over Edmonds toward the Olympic Peninsula.