The saga in Texas is completely unconscionable. I've been a doctor for eight years and haven't seen anything like it. They're completely disregarding patient autonomy and violating standard medical ethics to force a woman (dead or alive) to be connected to invasive machines to support a 14 week fetus. Abominable.

There is a severe lack of Doge in these replies, given the grammar apocalypse above.

There is a severe lack of Doge in these replies, given the grammar apocalypse above.

Clarification: she was pregnant at the time.

Clarification: she was pregnant at the time.

I once bought my normally petite (5 ft 1 in, 105 lb) wife a "maternity" fleece-lined hoodie at the local Target, which turned out to be a plus-sized hoodie that didn't fit her at all and she never lets me forget it. I don't buy her clothes anymore.

A couple questions that haven't been answered for me:

I'm mesmerized by that picture's UFO

I'm mesmerized by that picture's UFO

I'm mesmerized by that picture's UFO

Am I the only one imaging a factory full of disembodied penises working away and whistling merrily at the assembly line at Mossberg?

It depends on the type of surgery that's being done with local. There's very little surgery done with purely local — most office-based surgery is done with SEDATION also, and nurse-administered sedation is not necessarily statistically safer. It depends on the age, body habitus, comorbidities, etc of the patient, as…

It depends on the type of surgery that's being done with local. There's very little surgery done with purely local — most office-based surgery is done with SEDATION also, and nurse-administered sedation is not necessarily statistically safer. It depends on the age, body habitus, comorbidities, etc of the patient, as…

Let me just say.. As an anesthesiologist... General anesthesia is neither dangerous nor tricky, assuming it's being administered by an anesthesiologist (8 years of post college education/training). It's really quite easy. Much like flying a commercial airliner probably is for pilots.

Let me just say.. As an anesthesiologist... General anesthesia is neither dangerous nor tricky, assuming it's being administered by an anesthesiologist (8 years of post college education/training). It's really quite easy. Much like flying a commercial airliner probably is for pilots.

Let me just say.. As an anesthesiologist... General anesthesia is neither dangerous nor tricky, assuming it's being administered by an anesthesiologist (8 years of post college education/training). It's really quite easy. Much like flying a commercial airliner probably is for pilots.

No idea but I imagine one could google it. :-)

No idea but I imagine one could google it. :-)

No idea but I imagine one could google it. :-)

What does?