imagine an imperial star cruiser 2000 feet off the ground of a planet, suddenly appearing. Handled (within the bounds of science fiction) scientifically accurately. All this to rescue hundred of their stranded allies on the planet. BSG awesome overall, but worth watching just that episode

very cool sci fi moments (both of them)

agree

Rib eye caps! the ultimate steak. if all these hormones mean more rib eye caps, bring it on

You beat me to the punch. I was a highly exercising 19 year old in 1984. 2 big macs, large fries and 6 McNuggets hit the spot for lunch back then. If i ate like that now, I’d look like... well i guess like fat ass Trump. WTF kind of adult eats that way?

was talking about the allegations to my daughter and exactly how I described him, “the white guy on the 70's show who wasn’t the main guy and wasn’t Ashton Kucher”

Obviously great news, BUT (I have a big but), civil rights should not need to come to a vote. Civil rights should flow naturally from the basic national bill of rights (or whatever the Australian equiv is, sorry American here, who as typical doesn’t know shit about other country’s forms of government).

In a time period filled with terrible stories about men’s behavior, this guy strikes me as particularly horrible. Maybe as a physician, the boundary violations seem especially loathsome to me. Not sure. Let’s hope this guy does some VERY serious prison time.

there are any number of ways to change things. but my point is there are no small tweaks that would fix this. A system like you propose would change the way doctors have been changed for about 100 years. Doesn’t make it impossible, but does make if VERY difficult.

couple of things, there are no residencies that are 10 years long. The longest residency is 6 years. A number of very subspecialized fields, like pediatric surgery, cardiac surgery, transplant surgery, etc. will then add 4-6 on top of that. So 12 years is the absolute minimum.

so glad you got through it! best of luck, continued! Not always, but in many cases modern medicine can work miracles!

2 guesses. 1- you coincidently had some abnormal cervical cells. or 2- you were on some type of treatment that made cervical/uterine cancer more likely. Sure they weren’t endometrial biopsies? Those are done in the office as well, and from the patient point of view, somewhat similar to a pap. That is the better test…

the below mayoclinic link is right. VERY rarely, a cancerous ovarian cell could migrate down and theoretically get picked up, but absolutely not reliable. That would be like hitting the lottery. Really no sensitivity at all for ovarian cancer. With a pap you are literally scraping the surface cells of the cervix. You…

Not to add to your worry, but you express a common misconception. Pap smears do absolutely nothing to detect ovarian cancer. Their only benefit is to detect cervical cancer (or conditions that can lead to cervical cancer). Pap smears NEVER show evidence for or against ovarian cancer. For women at higher risk of…

see my previous comment. There was quite a bit in the twitterverse Friday-Saturday saying that. However, it seems you are correct. because the skinny was technically only an amendment to the “original” bill (the one sent over from the house), the original bill was never voted on. Thus it can come back via…

exactly, crazy shit going on. Like you, i had understood that they were prohibited from bringing the bill back by reconciliation, but that is unfortunately not the case. Because they never voted on the original bill (the house bill), it can indeed by brought back by rec. Apparently, McConnell, at least as a…

Unfortunately that is not true. I had thought so as well. The technical reason is the skinny repeal was an amendment to the house bill. Thus, they never actually voted on the “real” bill. That means, they can still use the reconcilliation process. I was very sorry to discuss this last night

Physician leader here, and we clearly see in our primary care practices that docs with “American” sounding names fill their practices MUCH faster than docs with “foreign” sounding names, most typically names that sound “Middle Eastern.” The difference is pretty dramatic.

exactly the fiber is the key. by eliminating all the fiber, you are getting basically straight fructose (i.e. sugar), albeit with some vitamins mixed in. I think the concept of glycemic index is under discussed. Basically glycemic index is the sugar/fiber. Thus, even pretty sweet foods are mostly ok if taken in…