So confused, and horrified, but let’s focus on confused. I investigate a woman’s pregnancy history and find out: 1. That she’s had 20 million abortions and one conviction for eating fetuses, 2. That she’s never been pregnant before, 3. That she’s had 3 healthy children, 4. That she’s actually a Martian. Okay, WTF do I…

Even if they didn’t, wouldn’t people constant ask for just a little to roll a joint, and act like you’re a bitch if you say no (because you have a whole damned crown of it). Moreover, once you start breaking it down for joints, won’t it begin to look kind of ratty and unfortunate pretty danged quickly? Better to just…

I love them all, although there’s definitely some variability in quality. If you’re not 100% a horror fan, I recommend the Dark Tower series, which is kind of amazing.

Yup. I chose long vacation. I’m a medical resident, and before that went to a medical school that had an accelerated program (not so you finished earlier but so you have a year to do research, yay? seemed like a good idea at the time). Basically for the last 7 years I’ve had some vacations, but mostly I just work, and…

“Crash” (Dave Matthews) lplayed at least 2x per hour for one 76 hour period by my next-door neighbor in high-school boarding school, loud enough be inescapable.

I once took a gulp of old coffee and felt something skitter in the back of my mouth. I spit the coffee back into the cup immediately, and there it was, a small live cockroach. I only drank clear liquids from clear glasses for weeks after.

My uncle once flew United Pass with my aunt. He had never done so before and didn’t know the rules so his outfit was deemed inappropriate because he was wearing sneakers and no suit jacket. This was remedied by raiding my aunt’s luggage. Of note, my aunt is several inches taller and many pounds heavier than my uncle.…

Yeah, Everything Is Free should come with the subtitle But If You Ask for Anything Your Mother Will Break Out In Tears And Claim You Are Trying to Emotionally Destroy Her And Just Slitting Her Wrists With A Rusty Can From The Recycling Would Be More Merciful (Because Being a Single Mother Without Much Income Is…

Yeah, that emoji mostly reminds me of campaigns I’ve seen at multiple hospitals recently urging people to be quiet to promote healing. The monochromatic, flat brown eyes are pretty creepy though.

Yup, my emergency medicine residency had one of these drills. They tapped a few local police officers, gave them Nerf guns, and let them try to hunt us down in an abandoned school (my local community is hecka impoverished, fyi, thus the elementary school that’s been abandoned for the entirety of my residency). You’d…

So, we already have the highest maternal death rate among developed countries. Doubtless withdrawing care from pregnant women will solidify this status - maybe Republicans don’t understand that in this case a low number is way, way better than a high one? Trump does seem to like being number one.

Hoo-boy, no kids but this is still an issue. When we first met, my husband and I were on a roughly equal footing (both impoverished liberal arts majors) but things have changed over time. I got into med school, and then emergency medicine residency. He was a great partner, and fully aware that he didn’t really have a…

Wrong. Your liver can regenerate itself, up to a point, but then there’s liver failure, and getting on the transplant list, and good luck with that... Honestly, your dismissal of this point is somewhat baffling to me as I’m a f*ing doctor and if my child was to toddle into my medicine cabinet and stuff gobs of…

Using tylenol wrong can 100% kill you, and yet it’s easily available. If danger is a metric for refusing to provide medications OTC, birth control pills falls looooow on my list.

Dunno its street name, but the formal name is carfentanil?

Yup. I work in an ED. Life is heartbreaking. I legit had to tell a pre-teen his dad died, on Chrismas eve, this year. That was awesome /s. It was also not the only soul-crushingly depressing moment this year. You know what I want from TV? Maybe a little pathos, but mostly a butt-ton of action, pretty people with…

This summer in my area there were a lot of people taking illicit Norco (cheap, minimal social stigma and no track marks so thus pretty popular in any demographic) that turned out to secretly be synthetic fentanyl (even stronger than fentanyl), and it was fun times! By fun times I mean sky-high doses of Narcan to wake…

Clonazepam isn’t an opioid. This isn’t meant to denegrate your experience, and I’m sure they’re cracking down on all kinds of stuff, including benzodiazepines (what clonazepam is), but just FYI.

Well, if you think about it, opiates stop you up, badly, and loperamide stops diarrhea - same mode of action.

I feel this way when I see Medicaid patients in the ED generally, but yes, especially when those patients are children or pregnant women. Many people don’t realize that it’s Medicaid that covers pregnant women who cannot afford prenatal care. Gutting Medicaid coverage for children whose parents can’t afford pediatric…