This is quite honestly the most inexplicable and obviously awful corporate idea I have ever heard of. They would have been better off reminding people they offer health insurance to their employees, unlike most independent coffee shops or fast food joints. For that, I have never hated Starbucks, but this "race…

My wife says it's a matter of "wanting." So, hectoring a person who doesn't want to do something doesn't change their mind. It makes them dig in. You will never EVER get a person who doesn't want to quit smoking to even try. But someone who wants to might at least try.

In my case I did get full blood work done, and knew my status for everything before I even got pregnant. One of the many benefits of leaving in Quebec.

To be fair, there's a big stretch between ideal and a rabid anti-vaxxer. I think a significant fraction of parents who want specialized vaccination schedules based on internet research could be swayed if they got more specific answers about their fears. I know it sucks, but that IS part of your job as a pediatrician,…

But the chemicals.

Amen sister. I find there are extreme opinions on both sides of the argument. My child is vaccinated but I always research and question every single vaccine given to my kid. This is what is known as informed consent. Coming from east Africa I didn't need to read the Constant Gardener, to be skeptical of…

I delayed getting my son vaccinated just for the first set of vaccinations, which occur at 2 months. You can judge all you want but we were worried about the side effects, not the rare major ones but the common ones such as a fever that occur after vaccines. That's because he was a colicky baby and we didn't want to…

I'm somewhat amused that people here are so quick to dismiss women's—because, come on, this is about moms—ability to make medical decisions.

I don't have kids, but as someone who has had a bad allergic reaction to a shot, I would be scared to give my child a lot at once just because if there is a reaction, it would be harder to pinpoint what it was. Is this a completely baseless thing to be concerned about?

I know, did people gloss over "organ failure." This woman is still suffering physically. Her body is fighting to save or get rid of organs, probably the liver and/or kidneys. I don't think she is currently applying for employment.

That and she's still recovering from the effects of the treatment... Is it possible that she could end up permanently disabled and unable to work at all? I hope not.

As it should be. I hope she gets, and I think this is the technical term, a fuckton. I mean, it does have to go through the courts, but from the beginning it sounded like the hospital's handling of the early cases was negligent. (You know, based partially on the fact that they sent the first guy with ebola back home.)

Yeah, the lack of consent and using her as a PR pawn is really fucking disturbing. She will never be able to work again as a nurse. It's not fair.

Yeah, I suspect the emotional distress part of her case is going to be huge, because there are a ton of angles to work with there - the horror of knowing you have a disease we don't understand perfectly and can't treat well, the stigma of being publicly identified as having a very feared disease, the fact that she's…

Shame on the doctor for RXing something so dangerous for a few blemishes. I'm very sorry this happened to you! Accutane was pretty far from innocuous, as it is a gigantic teratogen (fetus mutilation sounds better that way) and was known to cause horrible side effects in the humans who ingested it on purpose.

I remember reading that her family eventually "outed" themselves to the media because they wanted to have some say in the narrative. Given this information, that makes more sense.

On Gawker, it says that the video of her in the hospital was recorded without her consent and that they (the hospital) released her information despite her requests not to. :o(

Well, yeah, I think that's to be expected. It sounds like there's some good evidence her employer was negligent, and she had to deal with weeks of hospitalization, the emotional distress that comes with knowing you might die, and what sound like long term consequences to her health.

There's nothing worse than that stale kidney odor.

Baking soda for when you want to rise for the occasion.