I have had an unintentional mostly not anesthetized c-section. This was an emergency and the epidural had already failed.

Dude, how old is the author that he thinks that widow lady is a crone? She looks like 50. She doesn't even have gray hair.

Wicked pissah!

Honestly, if there were a reverse Bechdel test, the show wouldn't pass. The men spend just as much time talking to each other about their relationships with women. It's a soap opera, it is the whole point that they talk about relationships.

April is BY FAR the most like any real doctor I have met. Most docs are not cool, great looking, snarky, etc. Most of us are dorky, socially retarded, rigid, and potentially annoying, it is what comes out of spending your youth studying and working all night instead of having a good time. When she said she was a 25…

I think that is the ENTIRE REASON she is worried she is a bad mother and tries to kill herself. I think she considered it all the time and worried she had ruined her child's life for that selfish reason. I also understand that she also realistically had to consider that her captor had no love for the child and very…

Why? Besides the non selfish reasons (mostly worries the second he gets out of her sight, that her captor would kill the child) there is a selfish reason to keep the baby. Imagine being completely alone with your only human contact being raped intermittently. Consider having a baby, who incidentally is another human…

Some parents do view parenthood as the main purpose of their lives. I certainly do. This is not due to a lack of other things I have accomplished either. I work with very seriously ill people as a physician and my work is very meaningful. However, I do think my primary purpose is life is to be a mother. This is not…

It reminds me of that SNL skit where Tina Fey played an Eastern European woman on "Girls." One of the characters was complaining as per usual about something stupid and she says something along the lines of "well, it's OK, it's tough being 14" and the Girls character says, "No, I'm 25" and Fey yells "25! What is wrong…

The actress is over 40 portraying the character, I am presuming the character is supposed to be the same age or so. Risk of miscarriage at that age can be up to 50%. In fact, the second she said she was pregnant, my first thought was, "Don't say anything, chances you'll lose it are really high…." Stress won't do it,…

Scrubs is by far the most realistic representation of real life as a doctor, especially as a resident, of any TV show. Early ER was pretty close but got way too high with the body count of the cast and all of the crazy dysfunction. If any real ER had that many staff die or be in life threatening situations no one…

Again, being able to walk a few meters is pretty good as far as "vibrancy" at that age. To be blunt, if she could live in an apartment with someone only checking in once a day, she was on the upper end of vibrancy for her age. She clearly had enough mobility, hearing, and sight to get herself out of bed, dressed, back…

That is not what I am talking about. Everyone imagines they will be a vibrant older person who lives in essentially a college town for seniors. It's a nice idea but if you are in any way physically frail you can't live there. If you break a hip, you are SOL. If you have trouble getting around because of Parkinson's,…

Forget the sugar stuff, lots of places won't let you have sex. With your own spouse, even.

I just found a writing magazine from high school with stories and poems from myself and other teenagers.

So let's get this straight.

….I'll be in my bunk.

If you think seventy somethings don't swear, don't come over to my parents' house. It makes the Sopranos sound like a preschool. Bring your smelling salts.

….I'll be in my bunk.

What many people don't know is that turtles are nature's suction cups.