Thought I was being nice sending my post-procedure patient out w/ginger ale & crackers for her ride home. Her husband, however, chastised me for giving her "unhygienic" crackers since I unwrapped & put them in a cup. Sorry sir, I figured her 85 yr old hands could use the break.
@aakashgupta Love the idea of trending VS & labs, they can be going the wrong direction but still normal. I caught a bleed in a pt this way, HR trending up & BP down for 12 hours before I came on but "normal". Told MD, drew labs, Hgb way down. GIB opened up while I was prepping him for CT.
As a Japanese watching the UK right now, I have one simple question.
A Sudanese asylum seeker just tried to behead a local man in Belfast. The victim lost an eye.
This comes after years of grooming gangs raping thousands of British girls — gangs that police and councils deliberately ignored because they were afraid of being called racist.
In Japan, even one case like this would have triggered national outrage and immediate policy reversal.
But in Britain, the conversation is still about “not being far-right.”
British people, at what point does protecting your own children become more important than protecting your reputation?
We genuinely do not understand this.
@LJGreni I could tell he needed someone to talk to! I'm very used to chatting with lonely elderly men in my line of work, and old people in general LOVE to talk about their health problems. I'm a little concerned he still has a driver's license though!
Helped an elderly man put groceries in his car & bought myself 15 minutes of his life story, including him just finding out he had a biological daughter from a one night stand & a grandchild who "transformed", "it's the popular thing to do these days" 😂
@Mt2Aguy@nmlinguaphile I grew up in a one bathroom house w/family of 4. My parents drove used cars until their 50s. Vacations were getting in a car & driving to Maine, NH or Cape Cod. Basic cable. Restaurants & takeout 1-2x/month max. And we were all perfectly happy. Boomers got by with a lot less.
Widow's Bay is good, just good. I'm not understanding why it's a critical darling. 80% of the attempts at comedy aren't hitting, probably because the creator/showrunner is from Parks & Rec and wrote it as if it's a mockumentary, but didn't film it as one.
The almond vs the cow.
The almond:
- Grows in a desert.
- Needs water the desert doesn't have.
- Drains a prehistoric aquifer to get it.
- The ground above that aquifer is now sinking.
- Requires 70% of America's commercial bee population trucked in every February.
- The bees don't come back the same.
- Cannot survive without heavy fungicide application.
- 50% fat of mostly linoleic acid, an omega-6 that sits in your cell membranes and oxidises under stress.
- Also contains oxalates, phytic acid, and protease inhibitors. One anti-nutrient apparently wasn't enough.
- Has no B12. No creatine. No carnitine.
- Gets shipped six thousand miles in a refrigerated container.
- Is described as a superfood.
The cow:
- Stands in a field.
- Eats the grass.
- The grass grew because it rained.
- The rain required no infrastructure.
- Complete protein. Fully absorbable.
- B12, zinc, haem iron, creatine, carnitine, and every fat-soluble vitamin your brain has been waiting for.
- Zero oxalates. Zero phytic acid. Zero protease inhibitors.
- Has been building strong humans for ten thousand years.
- Has an ingredients list of one item.
The sad little nut that drains aquifers and kills bees, or the walking multivitamin that built civilisation.
We chose the nut.