I know I read this back in June, but forgot to star it somehow.

There you go. And yes, I’m ashamed of the oversight. :(

You win. Goddamnit I hate that [this archetypal comment] was ever pertinent again, but you win.

Oh MY what a buuuuuuuuurn.
That is sweetness right there.

Ah, I did assume adequate training and ability to read imaging in my original post.

Sadly, it may have been negligence - I’ve seen clinicians fail to report/refer findings simply to avoid giving business (yes - too many view patients as business) to rival clinicians or facilities or groups they have beef with.

Which is…

I’m on board with this.
And I’d let her do me - however she decided to interpret that.
Or let one of her girlfriends do me while she sat alongside us, sipping pinot grigio.

Jesus she’s sexy.
And I’m a slightly sick puppy.

That’s a very tricky scenario though, from the clinician’s POV. I’m in healthcare, and yeah, in school we learn about indicative signs and symptoms of many neurological diseases - honestly, Parkinson’s, Alzheimers, and other dementias can be spotted a country-mile off.

The rub is though how litigious American society…

Your voluntary quips do more to show the type of person you actually are than the actual arguments you make, btw.

Mixed blessing that, cloak of anonymity....

I’m so sorry to hear about your father. That is honestly one of the positively worst ways I fear of going - a slow slide into dementia, but with the realization of what’s inevitably happening. My heart goes out to you and your family.

FeralMum - you’re wasting your time. I wish you weren’t but you are. As much as I like the potential for the internet to increase scientific literacy, you’ve just demonstrated one of it’s ultimate flaws - the ease of access to information/ability to cite info.

Yeah, James could have done all the actual reading and…

JAmes - as a doctoral student in physical therapy whose research interest finds me quite often reading and citing NIH work, and with one of my research advisers ADVISING the NIH and the EU’s equivalent of the NIH - flatly, no, the NIH is not always reliable. Virtually no medical organization or publication is always…

Oh, and good god I’m a fan of that username :)

No worries about the first-time look up - I’ve learned most people who even know it exists have already been there :)

But YEAH, it’s really amazing how we’re managed to find every time part of this world. I’m still blown away by Pitcairn Island. It has a fascinating history...but just keeeeep zooming out on that map.…

I’ve never noticed that!!!! lol

Its tail/backleg/flipper skin tag is connected to the main by a little land bridge. But yeah, it DOES look like a lounging platypus.

For serious here - I don’t know what you mean, exactly. The verbal/physical/emotional abuse? Or the automatic dismissal of their ability to autonomously and voluntarily think/act/analyze/survive/thrive/EXIST with zero input from cis hetero men?

I think you mean the second one, but I’ve never really thought about the…

Jorblox - You’re an idiot. But it’s okay! You have company, and everyone loves a party!

So my fam’s from the Caribbean (and not in that I’m Caribean but I’ve never been and my parents have never been and my grandparents came over when they were 10 and never went back way. I’ve been back almost every year and started…

Astute historical reference + snark... +10 pts to you.

OOOooOOOooohhh -fun story time!

So girlfriend Wicked Amygdala just got hired at a local healthcare facility, and met another new hire during her week-long training. Neither of us are the type to mention ‘my bf/gf this/that’ incessantly in convo, so it’s understandable how he assumed she was single.

Look at you with all that fancy loooogic and reasoning you’re using. Thank god The Donald’s coming to make this country great again by showing us all how logic and reasonshmeason are just tools that the libtard mainsstreammedia use to

...jesus h. christ that hurt just to type. I apologize. I’m going to bathe in the…

Gretchen - for me, this easy throwing around of the ‘persecution’ word is equivalent to people thinking vaccines are optional scientific lies designed to make kids sick. A lot of Americans and others in some developed nations (looking at you UK) have just had it too good for too long.

Funny thing - I passed a women’s health clinic today, Saturday morning of Labour Day weekend at 9am and 2 protesters were out there shouting their heads off before the place was even open here in Orlando.