I did, but I work ED so it mostly provoked professional curiosity - “Huh, wondering what they said to explain that?” “Would twisting clockwise help with removal?” Everyone who works ED for any period of time has at least one butt stuff removal story.

I think it’s pretty complicated; it’s a matter of resistance of change in doctors, fear of litigation, and systems issues. So, a study shows that x treatment is as effective as y and is less invasive. However, the first study is small, so it has to be replicated over a wider population. This takes a few years. Now…

Glad to hear you got a good one! 100% agree on the egos. I’m an Emergency Medicine doctor, and I swear 25% of my job is soothing the egos of specialists so they will do their fucking jobs (think listening to a neurologist sob about how he has too many patients and everyone expects too much of him for 10 minutes when…

Agreed. However, besides representing the medical field poorly on a moral front, I’d also like to point out that the physicians in congress also represent them poorly demographically. As of 2010 >30% of physicians were female, and that number has only increased over time. There are little to no female physicians in…

Too true (hides head in shame). Should’ve read:

I got into ANTM while on medical school rotations. I was personally experiencing the daily joys of being repeatedly being told I was stupid in oh so many different ways, being sleep deprived, being denied use of the bathroom and time to eat, having my clothing choices critiqued daily, and trying to suck up to insane…

I think they know:

Not in my experience, and we had a lot of stuff thrown at us our first year: snake bite with subsequent catastrophic medical bills, me in med school, his fathers cancer diagnosis, our dogs death... There was a “we’re all in it together and isn’t it awesome to be a team feeling though.” The 5th year is kind of kicking…

Except that inflation hasn’t really increased in any of the years that the minimum wage was increased previously. I’m always wary of “because that’s just the way it works” statements based on theory, however widely accepted - they are often historical proved not only wrong, but frankly laughable (see phlogiston). In…

Why, precisely, do you keep stating that increasing the minimum wage increases inflation? Could you provide citations?

Amen! I love my dad, but he constantly brought up during my undergrad how he’d paid for his public college outright using only money from his summer job with the railroad, and had no loans or parental help (the latter is kind of a fib because he was getting his deceased dad’s social security as my mom pointed out). I…

Gardening naked, like cooking naked, sounds horrible beyond belief. All I can think of is dirt in my butt crack, raspberry bush and other thorny things scratches on sensitive areas, and bugs being able to bite/crawl on even more of my body then they already do. What kind of gardening is she doing?

“Sessions, who is also threatening to unwind police reform and recently said marijuana is ‘nearly as dangerous as heroin’...”

Sure, but I don’t know how I’m going to rustle up two clowns, a donkey, and a belt sander on such short notice.

Oh, scrub-buddy, dunno your situation but agree. I’m married, thank heavens, because the thought of putting on grown-up pants or a skirt for an entire evening is painful. Honestly, after 7 years of training (4 years of med school, 3 of residency) my wardrobe has narrowed to hospital-provided scrubs, pjs, a handful of…

As an emergency doctor I say to Raul Labrado, fuck you. There are clear and painful limits to what I can do in the ED, not because of lack of caring, but because of what my scope of practice, training, and resources cover. If you come in sick because of sepsis (severe, life-threatening infection), I gotcha. If you…

I find that my vacations are immensely enhanced by copious vaginal bleeding and gut-wrenching cramps, don’t you? Also, by the lingering after effects of soul-crushing terror about how the next few decades of my life might be affected by being tied to the life of a possible person I have no desire to produce and feel…

Yeah, most studies show it kinda sucks as a “gateway” drug, and alcohol, which is 100% legal, beats its pants off as a precursor to rougher illegal drugs.

Thank you! I still haven’t figured that one out - I’ve even done some google searches and it makes zero sense.

Blobfish-reminiscent?