I kind of like it—it reminds me of the early ‘90s.

These are amazing!

You know what the definition of an election c-section is? I mean, aside from the obvious ones that are scheduled weeks ahead of time. It goes something like this:
Doctor: I think you should have a c-section
Patient: Oh. I hadn’t planned on that.
Doctor: You should have one.
Patient: Oh. Then I guess I’ll have one.

Hahaha, you’re adorable. No, what I am complicit in is called “being a doctor.” And just as different doctors have different methods and use different procedures, or different techniques for achieving the same result, some more unscrupulous doctors tend to leave some info out, or to lie by omission. This is simply to…

That’s the best reason to get one—so you no longer need to remember which basin has the damn disposal in it. ;)

You can have a second disposal, but it will require its own circuit, just like the 1st one does (may differ across jurisdictions and codes.) If your electrical panel has the space, and you have the room for a 2nd disposal underneath, why not? It’s just a matter of having an electrician wire it up, and whoever’s doing…

And what is it now? $15,000?

Eh, the wealthier states have Medicaid pick up the tab for the c-section, if Mom has zero way to pay for that. So the docs all do get paid in the end. That means that most of the blue Mid-Atlantic (and some of NoVA,) and the Northeast pays for c-sections, anesthesiology, etc., for all the poor, or under/uninsured…

Hey man, Fresca’s delicious.

He really is a profoundly unattractive man.

Reading glasses. That means presbyopia, i.e., farsightedness or the inability to read small print up close. You can see everything else just fine, and the printing on dashboards (tach, fuel, mph, etc.,) is large enough to be easily read by people who otherwise need reading glasses to read a novel, or a menu, or the…

He could make two different claims, to two different insurance companies, and likely get a much larger payout than from one claim.

Doctors can prescribe any legally prescribable medication for any indication they wish; it’s called “off-label” prescribing. However, pharmaceutical manufacturers cannot advertise for off-label uses, like ketamine or buprenorphine for depression, those are the kind of claims that need to be FDA approved.

500mg of Adderall would be heart attack city, but 30-40mg would do that to someone who isn’t habituated to it.
ETA: Just saw the other replies below. Hyperbole understood!

She posted all of this nonsense on Twitter. She lost whatever right to privacy she may have had when she invited the internet to her ridiculously bullshit “prank.”

You’ve just described my husband’s uncle. He’s unable to see how his well-compensated, union job is the result of progressive influences, and that if his Tea Party heroes were in control, they’d work him 70 hours/week for $10/hour with no benefits or overtime. “Oh, but they wouldn’t actually do that.” What he means is…

Oh, god, the casual racism I hear—because I’m white, I’m deemed an acceptable audience for such things—is ridiculous. But I don’t let it slide. It’s gotten me uninvited from a few future cocktail parties, but I just don’t care.

She’s English. I took Winslet’s comments to be entirely too British—it’s incredibly rude to talk about one’s finances in public while British. Not a jab @ Lawrence, not a jab at anyone—just a general expression of distaste for discussing financial matters in public.

And the problem with IUDs maybe being the cause of recurring yeast infections is that there are few studies of how the string absorbs, resorbs, adsorbs, etc., the bacteria and fungi present in the vagina. And because there is a dearth of literature, there is a dearth of knowledge. And seriously, after hearing more…

Agreed. And I’ve gotten quite rude in this thread, replying to obvious libertarian and GOPer blowhards, who seem to think that health care is the reserve of those who earn millions a year.