I am absolutely not disputing that, its true and it sucks. There are many real cases of medical mismanagement out there that deserve outrage, this is not one of them. This woman may have felt verbally dismissed (as an ER RN, a huge part of my job is to make MDspeak to meaningful and understandable to patients) and I…

She DID NOT HAVE A STROKE. Not one, not in the parking lot, not in her car, not in the ER, not a single fucking stroke.

In Canada, the standard treatment for TIA (post-CT, bloodwork, ECG and carotid dopplers) is discharge with stroke prevention followup. No ambulatory, symptom-free person would be admitted with resolved neuro-symptoms. Remember, she did NOT have a stroke, she had a TIA. And in the absence of clinical findings (no clot…

She did NOT have a stroke. She had a TIA - a transient ischemic attack- sometimes called a mini-stroke (to encourage the public takes symptoms seriously) but the key difference is that the ischemia is temporary and self-resolving. So there is no visible clot on CT scan, and no clinical symptoms of neurodeficits to…

It does suck that we have to have these safety moves-men and women- even in the most transient interactions, but still, THANK YOU for having a lick of common sense, a sense of self-awareness and a 'move'. It makes a difference.

Seriously, everyone else can just pick up their boring shiny, wrinkly-ass satin poufs and head on home because this look right here just KILLED THE MET BALL DEAD.

If i have a collapse during a marathon one day, the paramedics will cut my moving comfort rebound racer off me at their peril. Debrillate around it, fuckers!

For someone whose whole entire thing is fashionating, pageboy there is getting her Spring sartorial ass handed to her by FLOTUS and METPRES- they are blossoming!

By that token, I am going to assume that your FB profile picture is Sophia Loren in 1968 because she looks kinda close and you don't like having your photo taken. Its no biggie, but you've gotta recognize that the map was kind of a disingenuous move, c'mon now.

So you posted a random picture of a colour coded map that refers to fuck knows what just for kicks? In a story whose lead sentence promises "data on which States tip best"? That's kinda like reading "Here's what I ate at Alinea last night" next to a photo of a KFC double down, cuz you walked by a KFC on the way…

Why lead a data analysis story with a colour coded map that is without legend and apparently not even related to the data under discussion? That's just meaner than a 10% tip :-)

Clicked through 4 links on Quartz, found a map, it's pink, and it's colour coding doesn't correspond with the image that leads this story. So is that map just a random image? Why would you torture the data-inclined that way?! Now i know how the colourblind must feel looking at colour-coded data.

I don't, and never would. I run to PB not entertain, or be entertained. I'm just failing to grasp how people who run wearing whatever the fuck they want to wear to help motivate them to finish a marathon are 'dumb', and how they're attire is anyone's business.

I hope you run a race one day, and proceed to get chicked by every single lady wearing a goofy outfit. And that a dude in a banana suit ruins your finish line photos.

Oh totally, I just wanted to comment about the optimistic possibilities without getting into the general grossness of the cosmetic/industrial complex. It's hard.

When I was young, Isabella Rossellini was the face of lancome and I thought she was just the most spectacularly beautiful amazing woman and she ended up having this long, cool career doing super interesting projects and I just hope that Lupita has that and is that for tons and tons of little girls who see her!

I think what the editor-in-chief did was the perfect response. Acknowledge that the original piece was mortifying, publicly promote and donate to a worthy charitable cause, apologize sincerely, and hopefully fire the asshat who thought it'd be cool to snark some lady cheerfully going about her business of trying to…

I'm sure I'm not the only one who doesn't consider it to be totally fine actually, for a magazine to ask random people for a picture of themselves wearing something goofy (that was clearly supposed to help motivate them to achieve something) and then use it to mock them IN A NATIONAL PUBLICATION. That's certainly not…

Because i am a curmudgeon and i race to go fast, not look fun or entertain anyone or have anyone look at me or socialize in any way shape or form, 'fun' outfits kinda make me cringe, but if it means that people are getting off their asses, I cannot snark it, and I can't believe anyone would, cancer or no cancer.…

Cancer or no cancer, its a total dick move to snark on the attire of two people who are in the middle of running a marathon. AND the author doubles down on the asshattery by a) presenting it as though its a "trend" for ladies running in non-race contexts (as if) and b) that people believe this will make them faster…