Yeah, that also seemed pretty strange to me. I completely agree that a court telling a mother to stop breastfeeding is ludicrous, but usually by 6 months babies are feeding like every 3-4 hours and some can sleep though the night without feeds.

Sooooo not to take away from the gravitas of this very serious story, but:

So this is terrible, and these people should definitely face consequences.

Umm sorry the be THAT pedantic infectious disease doctor, but Nigeria hasn’t struggled with smallpox since 2017 - smallpox was eradicated due to global vaccination and the last recorded case was in 1977.

I joined a COVID vaccine facebook group for my city on the recommendation of a friend and it made the process SOOOOO much easier. Instead of checking 10-15 websites per day, I’d just check out places where people had successfully scheduled and posted about it. Still had a few strikeouts when spots were all taken, but…

What an icon. I feel like whoever takes over hosting (which, let’s be honest, I’m sure the whole reason they did the GOAT series and added him to the staff is so that Ken Jennings could) should be contractually obligated to overpronounce ‘genre’ just for old times sake:

As I doctor, I still see patients who work in these fields who refuse to wear masks, which drives me absolutely nuts. I have a guy who works as a sandblaster who came to me with shortness of breath who I’m working up for silicosis (which is basically a disease where tiny sand particles get in your lungs and fuck shit…

When I was a kid, we had the Dom deLuise audiobook version, which was a goddamn delight. I still can’t think of this book without hearing his voice going “Boil me some pasta, nice and hot”

Growing up, my mom was mentally ill in a way that I didn’t fully appreciate at the time (bipolar can be sneaky, and its hard when you’re a teenager to realize that your parent being “a little wacky” is actually something more). By some absolute miracle, I ended up getting amazing financial aid at a fantastic college…

As a doctor who works at the VA, I am always pleasantly thrilled by how many people working in our system genuinely take pleasure in taking great care of our nation’s veterans. When I hear stories like this, it fills me with tremendous sadness. I am so sorry that you had this experience, and more importantly I am so…

I’m from California and suffered through several needlessly miserable winters in New York with just a peacoat. I will say that when I moved to Cleveland, stopped giving a shit, and fully embraced the walking-around-in-a-sleeping-bag look for my outerwear choices, my life got IMMEASURABLY better.

I did ok... then they showed his mom with all the cards he made as a child and I lost it.

So I know that Gina Rodriguez has said some kinda sketchy things lately...

As a resident of Harris County, this is wonderful and makes my heart so very happy.

They rocked it like the choir/musical theater nerds they both secretly are and I am HERE FOR IT. More bro duets, please! (Bro-ets? Dude duos? Theres gotta be a catchy name in there somewhere, right?)

One of my coworkers (who I generally like and respect) just went to one of these seminars and it made me question pretty much my entire impression of him as a human being.

So UH is no longer the “primary affiliate” of CWRU, but its definitely still associated with the med school (in the same way the Cleveland Clinic, Metro Health, and the Cleveland VA all are). The change to the affiliation agreement basically just meant that the main UH campus is now referred to as the “Cleveland…

The cruelly, illogically truncated Season 2 of FNL was by far the most frustrating casualty of the last strike.

Actually, many (but not all) physical therapists have a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree, which would still entitle them to be called “Doctor” (in the same way that a PhD is a “Doctor”). In my experience, many of them do not use that title, however, because they don’t want to be seen as misleading people into…

There are a lot of really potent sedatives that will render you unconscious that used to be used for executions (e.g., barbiturates like pentobarbital), but access to them for executions has become extremely limited because pharmaceutical companies refuse to sell them for executions. This means that states have…