A few additions.

I remembered that issue when I saw this story break this morning. She was presented as a normal, attractive human being, complete with a boyfriend and a relatively conventional set of interests.

Extremely unlikely. States are almost certainly going to follow California’s model rather than subsidize out of the general fund, which was to put a 12.5% surcharge on all Silver plans for next year to pay for the Silver plans with cost sharing. Almost nobody ever talks about the actual math on this and fewer still…

400 women at one hospital in China

A few more balanced quotes from the NYT article were left out.

Yep, that level of responsibility would be unusual here.

Just out of curiosity, is the setup for Canadian surgical residency different than in the US? I know it is for derms, for instance, especially in the sheer volume of patients you’re expected to cover up there.

A friend of mine managed it through deliberately planning her pregnancies and taking time off after second year and a full year after graduation before starting her residencies.

As someone who has dated a woman who is a surgeon, it’s a pretty complicated issue that goes beyond starting a family. This is the most important line in this article.

Since this is your first post ever on GM on this account, can you provide some references to back up your own claims?

I’m late to this discussion, but something that hasn’t been brought up that jumped out at me was the choice to not show nudity during the overlay scene with Joi and Mariette. To me, at least, that felt like a distinct decision to specifically not do gratuitous nudity for once.

the loud sounds were LOUD.

I’ve been cheating with complicit in aiding a buddy of mine in on his partner...I don’t mind cheating with someone but I’m going to judge them because only they can’t be trusted in a future relationship! Cheats on their one boyfriend, why wouldn’t he cheat on another?

Party people?

Unless you’re doing keto, at which point you surreptitiously sneak a grape when walking through the produce section. And drink a lot of Mio so you can have some sweet cravings.

The latter, and you’re right - I’ve not been as clear as I could have been on this, and it’s led to some wrong impressions.

Violent? No.

They’d have to get off their Xbox.

No, just a Jezzie who lives in Denmark, speaks Danish, and has been keeping up with the story in the native language from local papers (which is almost always more robust than the international English reporting.)

It’s the part where even if you assume her friend’s scenario is true (as I do), something big is missing.