I completely agree about the cost issue, but just wanted to offer an educational point - r.e. the EpiPens now coming in 2 packs, this is actually based on legitimate concerns that a single dose will be inadequate to maintain the airway. The formally recommended dose for epi is 0.01 mg/kg (max of 1mg). It’s reasonable…

Nuff said - my mom’s a teacher and I can definitely see wanting a break from work after doing that (she loves her job but spends a lot of time justifiably frustrated); congratulations that your investment worked out well enough to take a break.

So their attempt to find a robot without emotional connections failed and they were attempting to find a human substitute? WTF!?! Unless this was a job which involved taking personal control for maintaining the closure of a portal between Earth and the demon realms or something, the 15 or so minutes a day you spend…

Yes? Maybe you should look into a different job if you feel that way...

:). I too want to hear those alternatives: “My new PAP technique means I can remove cells from your body for testing without jamming a plastic salad tong in your vagina!”

Unfortunately, the part of the country I practice in is hecka conservative. The TV in the doctors lounge is not only always tuned to Fox, I also have to listen to ostensibly educated people agree to the bullcrap he spews. For real - some of them supported him when there were other conservative options. It is…

I’m sorry about wht happened to you too - it’s horrible when the people who should be caring for you betray that trust. and those who should care enough to help, don’t. I think privileged schools can acually be quite bad about this, kind of a “our kind of parents don’t do that” perception.

Yes, for the replacement .Which I know from personal experience. So fuck off asshat troll.

It’s really infuriating too because I’ve worked with juvie kids before, and it’s awful how different the sentancing is for black versus white offenders. White offender above, assaulted two underage girls, thirty days. Black offender, unarmed robbery, 2 years. WTF?!!? Apparently the safety of a corner store is worth…

Make time for PT!!!! It is a life saver. I slipped a neck disk my first rotation intern year. Of course I didn’t know that was what had happened, just that my left arm and shoulder hurt all the time, and I was having trouble feeling the first three fingers of my left hand. I was on ICU - this is a very bad time to get…

For real. Maybe they thought I was lying? I wasn’t. Fortunately my primary abuser had moved out for those months so the worst that happened was a lot of emotional abuse (for example telling me that if I continued to talk back they’d commit me, and the cost would mean that my younger siblings would have to live in a…

The parotid gland removal is definitely over the top, and I have no idea why a doctor would do that without observed symptoms, but as far as the eustachian tubes go, how would you respond to the headline, “Doctor refuses to treat patient with excruciating recurrent ear infections due to Hurricaine Katrina-related loss…

There is no test for ear infections.

FYI, he was breaking the law. As a student resource officer, he was likely a mandated reporter, which means he was legally mandated to report if you indicated abuse. Not that that helps. When I finally escaped my abusive household by getting a scholarship to boarding school, I had a breakdown my first year…

Pretty much any inflammatory process can make your tympanic membrane red. A prolonged bout of crying can (temporarily) make your tympanic membrane red.

Whew! Feeling super-lucky because my fingers have never “mistakenly” and non-consensually ended up in a woman’s vagina, because apparently it’s super-easy to have happen.

I love the way you think, because it is 100% logical and awesome:

Excellent point!

Given the remarkable vagueness of his apology, I am left wondering what, of the word vomit he has spewed, is rescinded and what is left to be a platform, given that pretty much all of it was objectionable. Maybe he’s just sorry for running, full stop?

I can get behind that. I am a heterosexual woman and fond of dicks, but photos are not necessarily the medium in which they shine. I can genuinely say I’ve never seen an unsolicited dick pic that gave me any remotely sexual feelings. The feelings they inspire are (mostly), “Ugh, you are a gross pig for sending that,”…