As a doctor in a childrens’ hospital, yes, get your flu shot, and a new doctor.

Sorry, didn’t mean it that way? Just trying to say why I wear a blazer on planes and not be weird... Maybe failed.

I fly to a lot of conferences and wear a blazer on planes for 2 reasons - 1, I’m often heading straight to meetings or lectures or professional dinner events when the flight’s over and 2, wearing the blazer actually means it gets a lot less wrinkled or otherwise fucked up being in luggage (I have a really nice folding…

Ha, I knew you didn’t think that! I put that statement in so others wouldn’t think that I thought that it excused the other problems...

This is an ongoing issue when comparing infant mortality to other countries, many of which would never attempt to prolong the life of terribly premature infants like we do (some countries do try to save these premature babies but then exclude them from epidemiologic mortality statistics, too).

Came for this. Not disappointed.

10/10 would play

Durham, NC. I’d be caught dead before being anywhere near that flag (unless it involves burning it...)

She should be ashamed (although we all know the modern GOP knows no shame).

Yeah, 500% or 5x. My pedantry went into overdrive.

Well I just spit cherry Pepsi all over my $20,000 workstation.

I use drop box, $100 a year for a terabyte of cloud storage. It’s nice because I can make a folder that’s just stuff of him and share that folder with his grandparents and other family

Yep. There are days, more and more frequent, when watching short movies of him on my phone is all that gets me through.

Hugs.

This is what most of us are taught in medicine. It’s not a “spot”, it’s a tumor. I’m not doing a biopsy to “make sure it’s ok”, I’m doing a biopsy to “make sure it’s not cancer.”

Yeah I’m pretty sure if I started dancing around the OR with my biopsy specimens the OR nurse would (appropriately) knock my ass out.

I teach in a children’s hospital so I unequivocally feel I have the right to teach “guns are bad.” It’s insane that this statement is even considered controversial.

Beat me to it.

Yep. Fuck.

You’re right, totally the mom’s fault. Kids never pick up on things that stress their parents out even when parents don’t talk to them directly about it.