Daily bread 08/10/2018

• Is it unprofessional for doctors to have tattoos or facial piercings? - Tech Explorist

  tags: grammar

  • Is it unprofessional for doctors to have tattoos or facial piercings?
  • Is it unprofessional for doctors to have tattoos or facial piercings?
  • patient satisfaction is correlated with outcomes
  • to take prescribed medications
  • to heed instructions
  • healthcare providers
  • non-pierced peers
  • unadorned appearance
  • take a hard line on
  • try to be open-minded in
  • to be in sync with

• Brutality is common in video games, but not sexual violence. Why? | Aeon Ideas

  tags: grammar

  • Brutality is common in video games, but not sexual violence. Why?
  • impaling
  • notoriously violent
  • caused quite a stir
  • were appalled at
  • not least
  • relentless pestering
  • the outrage produced by
  • takings of more than $6 billion
  • have now grown up surrounded by
  • let video games off the hook
  • a handful of nasty examples
  • would be uncontroversially wrong
  • be so sanguine about
  • react with appalled horror to
  • bloodletting
  • have taken up this question
  • is misguided
  • our relatively blithe acceptance of
  • Tempting though it might be to
  • George Orwell bemoaned the fact that
  • has gone hand in hand with
  • the ubiquity of
  • voyeurism
  • to feign
  • Insofar as
  • the gamer’s dilemma
  • tap into
  • strikes us as
  • By contrast,
  • we’re happy to condemn it
  • a hail of bullets

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