Good for you and your fiance. I feel like there may be a really big shift in how female doctors/med students are balancing relationships and work. I'm only in first year, but already it looks like many of the female students are actually getting married and proposed to. There is still a "Daddy boom" in the upper…

"Another way to state my preference is to say that cis privilege is 100% my motivation for presenting my gender the way it is. I didn't care about gender so I grabbed the biggest privilege I could when I saw it and didn't look back. Male privilege was unattainable but cis female privilege was available so I…

I feel like inside I am a man. My energy is male in many ways. BUT people expect me to be female. I am petite and kind of pretty and most of the time I have to prove my masculinity to people. When they get it after a while it's alright but I feel weird when I'm supposed to fawn over a colleague's engagement ring while…

Best of luck to you. I'm in med school too. My SO is now retired and is waffling between "i should move and live with you where your school is" and "i have to stay where my kids are (they are 16 and 19) and live way far away". It's hard living in a remote location. The closest med school really is 1000 miles away.

It seems to be a really hard thing to diagnose. I too wonder about it. I think it has what we call "variable penetrance" so it affects different people differently. I'm in med school now so I look forward to looking into it more and maybe even figuring out if I can do genetic testing. My knees have had pain for about…

Well, I grew up in a household with no pets and it was pretty strange for me to imagine living with an animal. I was also bitten pretty badly by a dig when I was small (on crutches and everything). I did meet someone with a dog and have since had a few, and a cat. I love them now, but I can see why someone would not…

SOUP IS MY FAVORITE MEAL. I feel like all my comrades are here!

I think one of the nice parts about the canadian system is that it's really my market to decide who gets my eggs. I'll be doing my 4th cycle in the new year. I chose every one of my recipients and have good relationships with them all still. I might feel differently if I had my own children or was planning on having…

I don't know what you're so angry about. I"m just stating that my experience as an egg donor makes me think that no-one would choose it on purpose. I doubt people would choose cardiac surgery, even minimally invasive, if it was purely elective either.

As another donor (3x, planning my 4th now), I agree. Most people I have told about my donations cannot fathom why i would do such a thing. Especially when I tell them I didn't get paid (in Canada you can't be paid for eggs).

"Just freeze your eggs" is really, really not that simple or fun, and they will still have to hyperstimulate you regardless of how good the technology gets. Every walked around with two grapefruits in your abdomen, feeling them with every step? And then had a needle 2ft long stuck into you 40 times to suck out each…

I've gone through it and didn't have to- as an egg donor 3x, but I think i'm a little strange.

Probably testing embryos, not eggs, just fyi.

The moment that man opens his mouth, it's the very definition of mansplaining. Remarkable.

2 questions. I've been following the story but maybe not as closely as I'd have liked to. I am Canadian but in the west.

Nooooo... not in Toronto, but in western Canada, and I've enjoyed his radio show for years. Ugh. Yet another person I didn;t realize was creepy.

I also kind of agree with this, but I was just talking to an ER doc the other day who was telling me that he gets 2 months off every 2 years, and many of the ER docs in his group use that time to do MSF stuff. I feel like it would be really hard to go over and help for one month, then quarantine yourself at home for…

If we're trying to model and encourage appropriate gun-containing photos for teenagers, then saying to them "nope, taking a yearbook photo with your gun is not OK" is a great rule to have. If the point is to encourage responsibility (which you are seeming to accept as being a good thing), then draw some lines.

Hi, I'd still appreciate a reply to my comment below. Maybe I shouldn't expect too much on an internet forum, but it's important to me. Thanks.

It's becoming more common. I've just started med school, and we are being taught to ask some of these questions, like the person's feelings and fears, regardless of what's happening to them. You might be surprised by the information you get, and if it's a fear or feeling that we can help with easily, it works wonders…