Chetzemoka

We have to pay for the services we use somehow. I'd rather it be cash than the details of my entire life. But the money to operate those services has to come from somewhere

The secret ingredient is ✨🌈 misogyny ✨🌈

Stop lying. The massive, coordinated effort to outlaw gender affirming medical care is so much more than "a couple people feel squicky about trans ladies using the ladies room."

benefits and protections generally reserved for females

Omfg, please leave right now

We'll get there in our time, friend.

If by "quitting" you mean we all die, I think you just might be right.

As I literally sit here in the cafeteria on my day off rallying for our upcoming union vote 💪

Oof, yeah. It'll be time to break out my N95s again

Herd animals gonna herd animal ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anticipation of surge? We're already on the downslope of a recent tiny surge up here in the Boston area:

https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm

Yes, but that's different from subjective evidence and I think that's part of the problem. There's a difference between somatic symptoms and subjective evidence.

We differentiate between the two all the time without explicitly identifying it as such. "Patient says the feel a lot better this morning" vs. "patient says they still feel rotten" is valid subjective evidence that we really do take under consideration when evaluating treatment response.

Onset, duration, aggravating and alleviating factors, and consistency of reported symptoms are all things that distinguish evidentiary subjective reports from somatic ones. I've walked psychotic patients through things that were distressing to them that I knew were somatic. And I've caught "real" things where the patient subjective report was really the only indication we had. It IS possible to differentiate.

Granted, this demands more time than the corporations we work for would like to permit us to spend with our patients. Which is a huge part of the problem that we should all be protesting.

I disagree with the court. We're allowed to do that

You can’t have a cop sued whenever he makes a minor mistake

Your words