When the US reports physician shortages, it’s always interesting to see a comparison to other countries.... If you’re having a baby in the UK, for example, chances are you’re seeing a midwife unless you’re a high risk patient. If you’re a family doc in the US who wants to do deliveries, you’ll have to fight tooth and…

Yeah. I remember one time I had an emergency and had a guy doctor at the emergency room (we thought a tampon had broken off inside). Mom was surprised I wasn’t uncomfortable. I poinred out I’m uncomfortable with ANYONE down there (I don’t like it) and it was an emergency so I didn’t complain.

There’s so many ways to do it! Not just as an MD, but nurse practitioners do a lot of basic OB/GYN care if you wanted to be a primary provider, or there’s nursing for a more supportive (but super important!) role. You could also consider doula training, since a lot of places will have doulas for IUD insertions and…

I just spent a week on the southern west coast and many of the beaches where I was were pretty narrow, only allowing for 1 maybe two rows of folks between water and “back” of the beach.

Three to seven years in prison for the parents!? THAT’S IT?!

And then he dabbed.

Finally, goddamn. The only shame is that it was cancelled over a dispute, and not because someone had a come-to-jesus moment and realized this entire premise is deeply fucked up.

Right, Rey is like, so boring and not interesting to play as, whereas I have always found myself deeply passionate about, and highly invested in, small metal thimbles and top hats. I mean, have you heard about Thimble’s backstory???

I’m approaching the ripe old age of 32 and I couldn’t tell you the last time I handled, let alone bought, a CD.

The water contains fluoride in most municipalities and it’s because of a public health initiative to improve oral health, akin to adding iodine to table salt. This does not negate using fluoride in your toothpaste. But let me know how your Tom’s toothpaste and oil pulling turned out in 20 years

Unless you have an allergy or health condition that prevents you from using fluoride, don’t use fluoride-free toothpaste. Love your teeth people and let them love you back.

But finding a male lead in his 20s who can act and sing has proven difficult — especially since the studio wants someone of Middle-Eastern or Indian descent 

There are a lot of commenters in the greys noting that men have to wear suits and ties in these environments, which I think is a relevant comparison, especially if we’re planning to use “it’s so hot in DC” as a rationale.

Yeah, I have two minds about this. Pretty sure the majority of female attorneys I know wouldn’t wear open toe shoes or sleeveless dresses in court. My firm isn’t super conservative and I wouldn’t wear sandals to work. But if this is just Ryan’s arbitrary decision (as opposed to a policy in writing in an employee…

I actually think this is silly and super performative on the mom’s part. Acknowledging your baby’s apparent biological sex doesn’t mean gender norms or even a gender has to be forced on them. If everything looks standard down below, as the vast majority of genitals do, you can tell what sex the kid is with great…

Is everyone forgetting that the *Republicans* could have passed this without a single Democrat getting on board, and didn’t? Why is anyone playing into the narrative that the Democrats were the problem.

The Post got the 33,000 new beds figure wrong. The memo says ICE has “identified” 21,000 beds for long-term (>72 hours) detention, but only has contracts for another 1,700 and would need more money to buy more. It also says CBP has IDd space for 12,000 more people to be held in short-term (<72 hrs) detention. The…

It’s the “his own people” that’s most telling. At a subconscious, gut-belief level, Spicer doesn’t consider Jewish Germans and Austrians to be Germans and Austrians, i.e. Hitler’s people. He considers them wholly Other in a way that is analogous to Hitler’s own Othering of Jews, gays, Communists, dissenters, etc.

Holocaust centers.

My favorite part of this story is the NYT’s highlighting of Sean Spicer as having dressed up as an Easter Bunny. It was as irrelevant as it was relevant, and it feels like the NYT is finding subtle ways to troll him.