Absolutely! Either you respect medical ethics, the fucking foundation of which is patient autonomy, or you don’t practice medicine.

A total loss of trainees - residents are placed into LICENSED residency programs. They get some influence, but it’s done through an algorithm that UWSOM would be removed from. Whether their students could still be placed or if the school is also punished is a really fucking scary question, especially considering UW…

They should opt out of medicine altogether. Before even beneficence is autonomy in bioethics. Refusing a patient bodily autonomy and practicing ethical medicine are mutually exclusive.

As a woman in Texas, your maternal mortality rate is roughly the same as it would be in Saudi Arabia.

I think that’s true of everything he says, numerical or otherwise. He listens to himself talk and seems genuinely surprised by what he says half the time.

We need more stories like this. Politics isn’t all people who would shiv each other for any given lobbyist. Agree or disagree with policies, and I disagree with a lot of McCain’s, working with people and seeing them as human is not a weakness. I’d love to see Congress go back to being/become for all people a place…

Saw him at the Kennedy Center and he was soooo good. He noted feeling unworthy of the grandeur of the surroundings, until he noticed the KC had given Cosby the Mark Twain Prize and said his performance definitely wouldn’t be the most embarrassing to happen there.

The quotation marks are killing me. This is also the first time I have ever seen a comma directly before an ampersand. Words are meaningless and language is nothing.

Your voyage sounds long and full of peril. Bring supplies and take care.

“It’s not non-consensual, I guess,” is the descriptor of something healthy for sure.

Well, they don’t seem capable of arguing for anything more complex than a bumper sticker so... that’s good news.

Police departments and courts of law are not equipped to respect the rights of the accusers. All of history has proven this to be true. No one was named at UVA , but the fraternity won its lawsuit and it WAS the police investigating the students at Duke, who were accused and then exonerated... so unless no one has the…

Better living through chemistry!

Seriously, we need to STOP using “working class” as a euphemism for low income white people. To imply that the working class is white and somehow different in occupation than “the poor” or “the inner city” is not only offensive, it’s just mythology.

I’ve seen it as part of treatment in chronic pain, insomnia, PTSD... but it’s because it’s not a “fun” drug that makes me think there is an underlying medical issue. Not referring to you, but so many people get suspicious with more than one medication - but that’s the way treatment is almost always effective. I hate…

I believe this is referring to the lawsuit with the subsidy payments. House Republicans filed a lawsuit against I think the then-Secretary of HHS to halt subsidy payments, arguing that the Obama administration did not have the ability to authorize them in the first place because the funds were not appropriated by…

‘Oxycodone for his mouth’ is really weird phrasing to be sure, but anxiety and chronic pain are often cooccuring. Propranolol is a beta-blocker and is used off-label for anxiety. Although I can’t comment on the medical treatment of Aaron Carter, chronic pain that requires the use of opiates often comes with anxiety…

They probably remember you, but not for whatever awful reason you might imagine. Another reason they deserve that credit is that they forgive all of that because they have too much empathy to see most bad behavior as anything but an expression of pain.

No, you’re right, there’s a difference. There are places it gets blurry - Spicer and Preibus were both established pros who should have known better. Their incompetence is baffling in the way of McConnell and Paul. They should have plans. No one is expecting Kushner to have a plan for anything. They’re mind-blowing in…

Nurses get this extra credit a lot, and don’t get me wrong, they definitely deserve it. Great nurses are superheroes. But I’ve worked at a pediatric hospital and there is not an employee in the building who doesn’t deserve twice their salary. You’d be surprised by what a difference the food services people can have…