A titer is a measurement of antibody levels that determines if you have sufficient immunity to a disease.

Taking someone from first kiss all the way through just reminded me how godawful long it takes before that stuff becomes natural to a person. Most of us spread it out over a year or more in high school and never think about it.

I've seen people slip up and say "colored" when they were intending to say "people of color" before. This is especially risky if you've recently done any historical document reading and the term was being used ubiquitously with polite intentions.

I don't think that the point was that there was something naturally more intellectual about print media so much as that print and web media have to use different techniques to pull in readers and that web media expects less reader investment because it's often free content accessed via social media. So that tends to…

He was actually really good, but I think mostly I was strangely turned on by how demeaning and shameful it felt.

I lived with a guy once that we ALL hated. He was childish, messy, and irresponsible. Everyone who lived in our sprawling college town home (so, like, 20+ people) was literally counting down the days until he moved out. We'd actually all greet each other like that sometimes when he wasn't around: "two weeks!"

Don't worry, they're still asking. I saw an ad in my undergrad daily a year ago seeking a Jewish student egg donor and offering like $14k.

I think it's a combination of a) invisible work that we often imagine is done for free by family or shame people for not doing for free and b) work that if paid a fairer wage would make care facilities even more expensive than they are. We really just need a better system for adult long term care, but I have no idea…

Do we really count nursing as low wage? Maybe compared to other jobs in healthcare.... Nursing Assistants DEFINITELY low wage, of course. Also super in demand. It would be hard not to get a job with that certification, but I think lots of people leave the field after just a few years—hard on your body, hard on your…

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.