Who already hates you.

Most of them view the patients as something akin to a potted plant.

That probably defends on how fundie he is.

+1

No. At least not without a court order and judges are understandably hinky about DNA dragnets.

Usually they disconnect the feeding tube.  There’s lots of precedent, but the family needs to get a court order to have it done.

This was also the plot of a long ago Law and Order episode, where it turned out that the victim was a vegetable and her mother paid an orderly to inpreganate her because she wanted a grandchild.

Yup. I took this as a rookie mistake. We all know they’re thinking it, but there are a lot of districts we just won that we’ll lose if we keep talking like this.

I agree one hundred percent (and I’m a girl).  He just came off as so clueless and entitled, it was icky as hell.

It’s always good to have goals for next year.

I was about to say, wasn’t he hooked on painkillers?  My partner is a recovering opiate addict.  That addiction is a beast.  I wish him well.

Here’s what bothers me with the current climate towards being fat.  I’ve gained weight (30 pounds, and am now overweight). I hate myself like this. I am repulsed when I look in the mirror. THAT DOESN’T MEAN THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG WITH ME OR I AM A TRAITOR TO MY GENDER.  It’s ok if you’re ok with being fat, but it…

I’m sure as soon as he’s out the fight to get off the registry begins. (People like him and Brock Turner are so hard for me, because I am fundamentally against the registry and believe it’s unconstitutional, but I still want them to suffer).

Orthopods.  The frat boys of the medical profession.

Right?  She gave him a way out and if his brain was in his head he would have taken it.

Off topic - is anyone else unable to read their notifications?

What’s worse, herpes or syphillis?

Not sure they beat the Saints in a Super Bowl.

How is that dismissive?  It’s not at the level of someone be tried on three counts of first degree rape.

I have a hard time working up any sympathy for someone who worked for Jeffrey Epstein.