I think that the hormone dose of the implant is significantly higher than the Mirena, which on its own is a seller for most people. That and a lot of people remember Norplant sort of unkindly, so it's hard to get them on board with the implant (although it seems like a great concept to me, especially for teens).

I wonder how much of this has to do with identity?

Like any situation with herd immunity, no vaccine is perfect. In particular, vaccines are less effective in populations with compromised immune systems that are also most vulnerable to the illness being vaccinated for. Additionally, depending on the vaccine some vulnerable groups are simply not able to receive it at…

antibiotics are freely available over the counter in many countries, including India. My classmates (MEDICAL STUDENTS WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER) have been known to brag up buying a year or so supply of them when visiting relatives. People take them for everything when they're available. You thought patients asking for…

When the case in Texas was ongoing I remember reading discussions where doctors said that brain dead people's hormones are totally bonkers, so while this sounds simple to a layperson it's basically impossible to pull off anyway.

I think some of it is a generational artifact. Older doctors weren't trained with so many screening tests or such an expensive system with so many interventions, so they don't have as clear an understanding of testing. Meanwhile younger physicians spend hours learning and rehearsing sensitivity vs specificity and…

I feel really weird about things thay excuse aggressive and illogical behavior by women as the result of men's lack of proper deference. I get that insufficiently sympathetic male partners are a thing, but sometimes this covers over really serious mental illness and abuse.

I'm with you. Not only is everyone married, but they all seem pretty happy with it. I think a distant third cousin got a divorce. It was awkward.

He could be, but he currently works in industry. A huge part of the problem is that his skill set is in STEM and could be applied to either low pay positions that are very common or nice research positions that are extremely geographically limited and still don't pay so well as what I do will. I'd rather he just…

Reading this feels so awful. I'm setting myself up in a field to make at minimum twice what my partner does at his peak salary, but he still insists that where we live and how I specialize revolves around his extremely specialized niche.

The major limitation on this is how far we've had to move for our careees. The days of buying a house down the road from mom are long over... We went away to college and then we went wherever the jobs were from there. I'm scared my kids and their kids will never have any kind of relationship with their grandparents…

Vegan mayo is freaking delicious. Also indistinguishable from real mayonnaise. I can attest to this because sometimes I spread it on a piece of bread and just eat it. My roommate loves it, too. I assume people saying that mayo MUST contain eggs have just never had vegan mayonnaise. It's like the people at the cafe…

How would they only run it in the morning?!

I have a special dislike for people who eat meat but refuse to see what it takes to make meat. You shouldn't eat things if seeing where it comes from makes you cry. You shouldn't feed things to your children if you think seeing it made would be traumatic.

Okay, that makes sense. I understand your tone—I was a bit taken aback, but I get how my question might have been read. I can understand it as a primer, but I feel like reading it I'm going to run into more arguments that go something like "Baartman was basically a 19th century Beyonce" or something. I don't think…

Well, mostly we learned about her in Africana studies courses, and both the documentaries and articles asserted she was taken by force from her own wedding, for example. So not incomplete or unjust but completely different narrative entirely. Whitewashed to me implies softening the details, and the accounts of her…

I think the nature of gender segregation in the Greek system has some very disturbing effects, at least at my alma mater. The guys at fraternities guarded each other above all else, even when it came to a brother who was doing things like trying to keep a passed out girl with him when he friends wanted to take her…

This is a VERY different version of her biography than I had always been given for classes from documentaries and journal articles. Why is that?

Oh, I'm aware of the competitiveness. I was kind of joking. I about choked when I saw the Step scores and research expectations. I actually have a bit of a sore spot about dermatologists because I've seen a number of low-income patients whose PCPs were trying to refer desperstely to a dermatologist, and in a high…