"The claimant doesn't know what they're talking about, but if there are widespread complaints of similar symptoms, you investigate the shit out of it, because it could be something serious."

"I hope you get something someday and someone watches you die a slow death while referring to you as a 'granola nimby fucknut with an ax to grind'"

The diagnosis would be: Just fucking nuts.

"I was suggesting that there is nothing preventing what was claimed from being possible and that readers shouldn't be immediately dismissive. It needs further investigating."

No, but getting hit by a car isn't a disease. An open book pelvic fracture is a disease that comes FROM getting hit by a car.

You haven't heard enough when you heard he turned heat lamps on picketing workers in environmental temperatures that would make that life-threatening? What other side are you looking for? That they killed his dog and stole his baby? What's going to justify that in your mind?

I'm a physician who is the chairperson for my hospitals committee that has primary responsibility for (and that continually addresses) these ratings. And lemme tell you, hospitals game the everloving shit out of those numbers. If you measured quality as number of tongue depressors that went to waste we'd have to sign…

"The TSA is the security equivelant of Gomer Pyle. "

And again, grown-ups don't do things like punching or burning or throwing things at others who annoy them. So the manager by ANY means was a douche.

The single most important tool that you have to manage your healthcare costs is your telephone - insured or uninsured!

And the answer is.... avoid the sun AND take a freaking Vit D supplement.

You're wrong about the complication rate. You are quoting the rate for a serious complication. But even that: 1/300 circ'd boys gets a serious complication and 1/10k loses their penis.

And you can thank transgender men for making a serious market for phalloplasties, which has allowed the technology to advance this far. (Originally the surgery was developed after WW2 when dudes stepped on the wrong landmine.) Incidentally, the forarm flap improves the innervation/sensation but does leave an ugly scar…

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And Mussolini made the trains run on time. Just because an organization like Focus on the Faggots does some window-dressing-good-deeds that does not excuse the fact that they actively harm LGBT youth and adults and are responsible for countless queer deaths.

1) I'm an Emergency Medicine doc in the Sacto area. Tell your mom: We love travelers form the south and midwest. We may call them rednecks, but they kick fucking ass. Redneck is a compliment that equates with strong clinical skills and not afraid to work. Don't get me started on travelers form NY... oy. High…

In some ways. Its cheaper because the malpractice insurance is a LOT less (my malpractice insurance is about $30 of every bill). Its also cheaper because people make more sensible decisions about their pets. On average ~70% of the health care costs that each of us accrue in a lifetime occur in the last 12 months of…

Yes, but vets can't treat all but one species. So vets helping this dog took nothing away from helping humans. Moreover, its a teaching hospital: so the dog also helped students and residents learn surgical and rehab techniques.

I totally agree that a court could rule that way. As the internet becomes a more integral part of being a full member of society access for this disabled will make more and more sense. The can of worms of which you are thinking is not even 1/10th of a worm. First businesses/sites without a US presence would not be…

In the UK, yes. Here, no. Welcome to America.