This is a little bit of a complex question that you’d be better off running by your OB/gyne - whether or not it’s ‘worth it’ depends a lot on you and your history. I think there may be issues with getting insurance to cover for adults, but to be totally honest this is not part of my practice so I can’t give you a…

You are the kind of mom that I as a physician adore. Keep up that good work - you make our jobs so much easier (and most importantly you protect your child from terrible preventable illnesses). **internet high five**

She must be super tall (?). I’m a 6/8 and I don’t look anywhere close to that good in a bathing suit (I always assumed you had to be super skinny to be that lump-free.) Either way she is breathtaking.

I’m getting married in a few months, and when I started talking about how I needed to start exercising for the wedding, my fiance said something along the lines of ‘if you’re doing it to be healthy, that’s great, but it shouldn’t have anything to do with the wedding. You should just look like yourself.’ He’s a keeper.

Good luck with the next step!!

But no matter who Rihanna was with, she could always do better.

This is not doctors doing it, it’s politicians, that’s the problem. Also, I’ve refered patients to specialists for all sorts of procedures and never had a legal mandate from the state saying I could be sued if I don’t do the informed consent as the referring physician - that’s the job of the doc doing the procedure…

I’m the doc who sent in this email from the OK medical board (just moved to this state and still adjusting to the politics) - the email basically makes it sound like I could be sued for telling a patient in the ER where the abortion clinic is located when asked (plenty of people find out about their unwanted…

For whatever it’s worth, newer studies looking at female fertility make it look like what we generally assumed to be a steady decline in fertility with age is actually over-stated, mainly because they the studies used were looking at historic data where women all married in their early 20s, so the women still trying…

The patient would’ve stopped breathing and died if given a paralytic without having her airway secured. There are definitely medications that cause sort of a hypnotic-type state but definitely not a paralytic.

This is not possible with the way hospital medications are dispensed. Anethesiologists are basically the only physicians who carry around their own medications (definitely not ER docs), and anybody handling controlled substances is closely monitored (ie two people need to document together when certain medications are…

She would have to be basically to the point of overdosing in which case she wound also likely not be breathing effectively - it’s not a hypnotic agent and makes you sleepy but not in any sort of trancy sort of way. Also most hospitals don’t allow doctors into the machine where medications are held (since nurses are…

I’m starting to get one! All my greys grow in the same spot, which is unfortunately right in the middle/front of my head. I for a while could pick them out, but I’m going to have to start dyeing them VERY soon - I have super dark hair, and it’s not a good look for me.

Cliterary club? Cliterocracy?

I’m super confused by this because I've pulled the metal barb from a CPD taser out of a patient in the ER, so at least some of them definitely had them before.

Thank you!!! 💕

Maybe pull a lady out of the greys as a Christmas (Eve) miracle? I’m spending the holiday alone while my sig other + pup are out of town visiting family while I work 12 hour shifts straight through, so I could use the extra holiday cheer (but the church group who brought baked goods to the hospital was a good start).…

I work in an ER, one that serves primarily an underserved/minority patient population (and whose staff generally chose that population to serve). We do occasionally have to call the police for aggressive/threatening patients, but you better be damned sure they’re healthy before you kick them out (that’s why difficult…

You are obviously not a healthcare provider.

It’s because 24 weeks is already viable, and doing an abortion after that point is pretty rare (and ethically difficult even for pro-choice providers) unless there is some extenuating circumstance (i.e. threatening the life of the mother or non viable fetus).