As a vascular sonographer, I see a lot of elderly patients, most of whom are declining rapidly with all kinds of problems happening simultaneously. It’s pretty expected to put your probe down on these patients and see moderate to severe vascular disease right away.

I scanned a patient who was over 100 years old, and she had told me she was a dancer for most of her life, even had been on Broadway for a while. She walked into our lab perfectly fine, normal gait, and spoke very clearly. When I examined her arteries, they looked perfect, like they had never even heard the word plaque before. I searched for anything significant to report and I couldn’t find a single abnormality. Perfect blood pressure too.

Patients like her are unicorns. You just simply don’t see patients over 100 without some form of vascular disease. To top it all off she had no apparent cognitive deficits and looked like she could race you down the hallway. It was genuinely impressive how healthy she looked.

Instead of having the confusion of a “men’s” bathroom and a “women’s” bathroom at my work, we just took the signs off the doors. Both are individual bathrooms, and have a toilet, sink, soap, paper towels, and a locking door.

Now, when someone needs to use the bathroom, all they have to do is knock first (courtesy) and then use whichever bathroom is available when they have to go.

No need to worry about men in the women’s, women in the men’s, or any of the nonsense about transgender people using the “wrong” bathroom.

I worked in a restaurant and we would get big boxes of lettuce that were stapled shut. When you opened them you had to double check to be sure no staples got into the lettuce. If you couldn’t account for all the staples you had to search through the lettuce. Guy comes in from another branch. Lettuce arrives and he flips the box over. The bottom isn’t stapled it’s taped. Problem solved.

Theres a story you get told in engineering school of a company that had a problem of empty boxes without product coming off the line and being shipped to customers. Hundreds of thousands is spent to refine the old equipment but it didn't solve it. Eventually a monitering system was designed and implemented to weigh each box as it come off the line and to flag and shut down the line each time an empty box made it through. This solved the issue as designed. Several months later the owner decides to check on the syestem and see how many empty boxes are being flagged and finds that in fact none are being flagged, however the problem with empty ones shipping hasn't reoccured either. He goes to to the plant floor to investigate and discovers that a low level employee, tired of having to restart the line every time a box is flagged has simply placed a large fan next to the conveyor prior to the weigh station, this blows the empty boxes off the conveyor while the ones full of product are to heavy to be moved by the fan.

My first year teaching PE I had a students parent at an open house tell me that I don’t know the first thing about basketball because I’m a girl. So I challenged him to one V one and I beat him while wearing my Birkenstocks. I know ball

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I was raised in a Muslim family. Islamic law allows a man to have 4 wives. My father was married to my mother for 25 years. When I was a teenager my mother found out he was married to another woman in another country. My father would go on many "business" trips and it turns out he was really just visiting his second wife. My mother was extremely angry when she found out and went to the US courts to get a divorce. But in Islam, the man has the power of divorce. In order for a woman to obtain a divorce she has to go through an Islamic judge or in a case where we live in the US with no Islamic judges around, an Imam. Well the local imams didn't think she had reason to be granted a divorce since polygamy is allowed in Islam. So my mother suffered for a few years while my father continued being married to her and this other woman. I tried to convince her to forget about the Islamic divorce and just divorce him by the US courts, take half of their property, and never speak to him again. But of course she didn't feel like she could go against the Islamic way. So eventually she kinda grew to accept it. It was hard on us because at one point we went through a rough financial time, and I got sick and had a lot of medical expenses. My father lost his job at one point and we did not have insurance, and so times were already hard but harder due to the fact that he was splitting his money between my family and his other wife (he had no kids with her but Islamic law requires a man to provide for all of his wives. So even though she was employed and had her own money he still had to give her money).

We all hated my dad for the longest time. He finally divorced his second wife and after a few years we really haven't forgiven him but he lives far away anyway.


I think an important thing to remember about polygamy is how the allocation of resources affects the kids. You have to remember that the average Joe in the US cannot support 15 kids from 5 different spouses. Even if both parents have a steady income, it's not fair to expect one spouse to sponsor your kids 80 percent while you poly give them 20 percent because you have 10 other kids from 3 other wives to worry about.

Med student here, the amount of people that take some sort of supplement, and don't even think to mention it to their doctor when asked about any medication they use regularly, is insane. 

It may not be medication per se (it's often the exact opposite), but it can definitely have a big impact on your health, and your doctor should know about it!

The number one for me is the increasing influence of all the woo-woo alternative health stuff, but especially Anti-Vaxxers. Had to treat a case of freaking Diptheria not long ago. Diptheria has been gone for so long they didn't even really teach it to us at med school beyond "this used to be a big deal but you'll probably never see it".


F anti-vaxxers. I don't care so much if their choices only harm them, but when their kids are dying it pisses me off so much.