erika. 25. this is my main blog, I do have a personal blog. I have a BS in Family Studies and Community Development. I am pro-black, pro-LGBT, pro-women's rights, and anti-patriarchy. Feel free to ask for my personal blog! I also don't mind DMs
Delta choses to ban emotional support animals on long flights, which has serious ramifications for people who use ESAs.
To clarify, people can still bring animals on the plane if the flight is over 8 hours, they just have to pay the normal pet fee to bring them (circa 100 dollars)
Trump doesn’t want the public to think the stock market has tanked because of Trump’s government shutdown, his trade war with China, and the $1.9 trillion increase in the nation’s debt caused by his tax cut for corporations and the wealthy. (Actually, these are the major reasons for the market’s drop.)
So he’s blaming the Fed and its chair, Jerome Powell, for raising interest rates. And he’s ordered his staff to find a legal rationale for removing Powell. (It’s highly unlikely Trump has legal authority to do this, but like every other illegal thing Trump has tried, it may end up in the federal courts.)
Which is rattling investors even more, because they worry Trump is trying to turn the Fed into his own political tool.
All modern economies depend on public confidence that politicians can’t lower interest rates to serve their own purposes – such as getting short-term growth at the expense of long-term inflation and instability. (Which is exactly what Trump wants to do.)
Adding to the panic is Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, who announced today that he called bank executives in order to ensure that markets are functioning properly – an intervention that Treasury secretaries typically make when there’s an economic crisis.
Bottom line: Trump’s ego and his economic team’s incompetence not only threaten the stock market, but could tank the whole economy.
a jewish kid was murdered by a nazi last week in california and almost none of the articles about it are mentioning that he was jewish or that his murderer was a nazi
he was taken into the woods by someone he thought was a friend and killed. hits pretty close to home bc multiple relatives of mine, including my great-great-grandfather, were taken into the woods by their own neighbors and killed during the holocaust
A new report by Ontario’s environmental watchdog has some strong words for successive provincial governments over the better part of the last half-century related to ongoing mercury poisoning at two First Nations in the northwestern part of the province.
The 2017 environmental protection report by Dianne Saxe, Ontario’s Environmental Commissioner was issued on Tuesday. Part of the document chronicles the history and current state of the historic pollution of the English-Wabigoon River system and its effects on Grassy Narrows and Wabaseemoong First Nations.
Speaking to reporters in Toronto during the release of the report, Saxe called the issue “shameful.”
“Both governments and business have long turned a blind eye to pollution of Indigenous communities,” she said.
The report itself was no less harsh.
“After accepting financial responsibility for the mercury contamination, the Ontario government declined to take action for decades, largely ignoring the suffering of the Grassy Narrows First Nation and Wabaseemoong peoples,” it stated, referring to a settlement reached in the mid-1980s between Ontario, the pulp mill and the First Nations.
Hey, I’ve been struggling with money since I moved and haven’t been able to pick up much work, so I’ve decided to take pre-orders for my forthcoming book of translated poems by
the late Venezuelan trans writer Esdras Parra.
I’ve been working on these three hundred pages of poetry for the past three years and I’m really excited for them to become available to everyone as a proper book soon. Aside from the beauty and innovation of Parra’s poetry, there’s the historical significance in that she was publishing her poetry during the nineties after having faced a huge backlash for transitioning in the public eye, and the fact that this is one of the first books where a trans woman’s writing has been translated by another trans woman.
The book will also include original
art by Luvia Montero and an essay on Parra’s poetry by Aristilde
Kirby. The work is finished apart from some last minute revisions; and you can read a PDF draft of the book here.
However, before I can print a first edition of the book I’ll have to make it through these next couple of months.
So I’ll be taking pre-orders from now until Nov. 1st. If you’d like to receive an advance copy of the book, just send $20 to my paypal with
your address in the comment space. I’ll be sending out your copies in November, just a few weeks from now, and, hopefully, publishing the book not long after. Thanks!
“I just want to tell you guys: She played well and this is her first Grand Slam.”
Serena Williams defended Naomi Osaka, the first Japanese woman to win a Grand Slam singles event, after a controversial game penalty at the U.S. Open.
As a medical professional and a medically complicated human this is very important to me
That’s not wrong.
The tone of both comments is what causes poor doctor-patient relationships. Don’t underestimate how much education a doctor has. This doesn’t simply stop with medical school. It continues during residency and fellowship. For good doctors, this continues during practice. Good doctors stay up to date with medical guidelines and the changes that occur over time. Good doctors will research any condition their patient has with which they’re unfamiliar. Good doctors will listen to their patients and gently correct errors and misconceptions. Unfortunately, not all doctors are good doctors.
On the other hand, I’ve learned tons from my patients. Things that no book will ever teach me. As a patient, you deserve to be treated respectfully. Most doctors do their best to listen to their patients. No one puts in the time and effort required to be a physician with the goal of being a shit doctor. Of course, it happens. Doctors are humans and are just as flawed as everyone else. That’s the exception rather than the rule. Please respect the fact that we have a better filter for information than you do, regardless of how long you’ve had an illness. When patients request a specific test that I know is not indicated, I ask WHY. When a patient thinks they have an illness that that subjective and objective data do not support, I ask WHY. What are they concerned about? What is their fear? This is the question that needs to be addressed. That information generally allows me to either come up with a different, more appropriate test or list the reasons why their fear isn’t likely to be a reality. It’s all a two-way street that requires respect from all parties involved. Don’t go to a doctor who doesn’t respect you. Don’t go to a doctor who makes you uncomfortable. Don’t go to a doctor who is overly dismissive of your concerns. These are all red flags that you’re dealing with an asshole who just happens to be a doctor.
I mean, if you’ve got a choice in what doctor you go to, that’s great. I guess I’ve consistently had shit doctors because it wasn’t until… oh, 2010 or so that I had one that would listen to a goddamn word out of my mouth. And then that one retired.
You know why people have an antagonistic reaction to doctors? Because many of them have twenty or thirty years of their questions, concerns, and sometimes even symptoms being outright ignored.
Me at 14: So my periods are leaving me in so much pain I’m throwing up all day.
Doctor: They’ll get better when you have kids.
Me at 16: So I’m getting these crippling headaches.
Doctor: Maybe you should try taking some Tylenol. *writes down the symptoms I gave him COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THAN I SAID THEY WERE* (found that out years later)
Same year, different doctor: So take these I guess. *gives me pain meds that were so strong they affected my pulse, no follow-up*
*insert long gap of just not going to the doctor*
Me at 32: So along with these other symptoms that add up to GERD, if I go too long without eating it makes me sick.
Gastro Doc: Yeah it’s GERD. I want to check for Barret’s esophagus. (this bit I agreed with) Now here’s the advice I give every single GERD patient no matter what, including the bit about not eating for several hours before bed.
Me: Uhhh, if I go too long without eating it makes me really sick.
Gastro doc: Don’t eat before bed.
And then I look for a camera to stare into like the Office.
If someone is antagonistic towards doctors, if someone is aggressive with their own care, if someone outright tells the doctor to their face that they’re wrong… it’s because of a long history of THIS SHIT. It isn’t a rare doctor that ignores you, it’s a rare doctor that doesn’t. They may not go into the medical field to be bad doctors, but they might not have gone into it to do more than get their years in so they can retire, or so Mom and Dad can brag about the doctor in the family, or for the power trip.
So don’t try to tell me that my doctor has my best interests in mind, because historically that’s been rare. That doctor is going to have to prove it, and I am going to be suspicious at first. And this is just me! I’ve got a few weird body things, but overall I’m pretty functional. The periods got better when I was no longer underweight (which I had to figure out for myself), I worked out a routine for my headaches (which my one Really Good doc gave me an idea for the source of the problem, the rest I figured out on my own), my stomach is largely under control (which I had to figure out for myself), and the only thing that’s really acting up right now are my feet (which I am figuring out for myself). The only thing I really go to the doctor for are antibiotics (when I can’t argue any longer that I don’t need them) and my psych meds (which I ALSO FIGURED OUT FOR MYSELF).
So no, I don’t have a lot of patience with doctors pulling the “Well I went to medical school” card. If that makes you so much better than me, why did I have to figure shit out without you?
