You've left us up to our necks in it

Hey, can you sit down for me please? I'm Dr. TC Callahan, I'll be taking care of you today. Listen, don't worry about the paperwork. If you're in the emergency room, you've got bigger problems. So lie back and let me do the worrying, all right? I know it's scary, but I promise, everything's going to be fine. I'm your guy. [Independent Dr. TC Callahan blog from NBC's The Night Shift; please read rules before interaction.]

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Man walks again after transplant

A paralysed man has been able to walk again after a pioneering therapy that involved transplanting cells from his nasal cavity into his spinal cord.

Darek Fidyka, who was paralysed from the chest down in a knife attack in 2010, can now walk using a frame.

The treatment, a world first, was carried out by surgeons in Poland in collaboration with scientists in London.

File under: really important medical science things

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An end to needle phobia: Device could make painless injections possible

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Imagine no tears during infant vaccines and no fear of the needle for those old enough to know what’s coming. Such painless injections could be possible with a device that applies pressure and vibration while the needle is inserted in the skin, according to a study.

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The Epstein–Barr Virus Wears Chain Mail

The Epstein–Barr virus and its relatives in the herpesvirus family are known for their longevity. They persist in host tissues for years, causing diseases like mononucleosis, Kaposi’s sarcoma and herpes, and are notoriously difficult to kill. University of California, Los Angeles, biophysicist Z. Hong Zhou thinks the secret to herpesviruses’ resilience may be a layer of microscopic chain mail.

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Image: Bacteriophage MS2 capsid, cartoon representation.  Credit: Naranson via Wikimedia Commons

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Jill Flint

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Kingdom of Scars book launch 👍

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Eoin Macken and Tom Hopper - Wizard Con press conference 12/7/14 (KLZ)

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Eoin Macken in Morocco ★

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U.S Army Rangers with the Afghan-international security force pulling security on a compound in Kandahar province. Zhari District, Afghanistan. June 26, 2010.

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Visit Original Link

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PVT Marc Good prepares to exit a UH-60 Black Hawk during the Battle of Mogadishu on 03OCT1993.

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This might be useful for some of you who are interested in surgery! Credit belongs to ASAPScience on Facebook. (Follow them for more cool science related facts and info!)

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Identity 101

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please check out the links in our info page in the sidebar for a more comprehensive understanding of what gray A is!! 

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Just filled out my health insurance forms!

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yeah!!! fucking around with health insurance forms!!!!

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I hate when people complain about “oh health forms are stupid they want my biological sex instead of my gender!!!!” or “they only have male or female!!!”

There’s a reason for that, you dumb fucks, and they’re referring to biological sex

Different health risks are present in different sexes, and whatever gender is in your head does not change the fact that if you were born female, you have a higher risk for certain cancers and osteoporosis, and if you were born male you have a higher risk for heart disease and often a shorter lifespan than a female.

In other words, your biological sex is an important factor in health and health insurance, and your special snowflake status doesn’t change that.

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Coulda said it nicer but it’s true; it’s about health.

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No. There gets a point where nice doesn’t work. There’s too many stupid ass angsty teens on here that are gonna get themselves seriously hurt or sick because they wanna be a special fucking snowflake. Lemme tell you a thing. Doctors don’t give a flying fuck what you identify as. All they want to know is do you have two X chromosomes or an XY? Because cancer and lupus and certain medicines don’t give a flying fuck what pronouns you use. This is about your fucking LIFE. stop being angsty for TWELVE SECONDS because when you’re in an ambulance or going into cardiac arrest or whatever the situation may be, it’s ESSENTIAL that you get your head out of your ass long enough to tell them your BIOLOGICAL SEX that you were BORN WITH. It literally may save your life.

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this is all very violent imo 

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It’s important

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it’s not but ok lol

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hi im one of those doctor types you idiots keep using as an excuse to yell at trans people

every single thing you’ve said is incorrect, and you do not know what you are talking about

I may need to know what organs a patient does or does not have, their hormonal status and history of exposure, and even their karyotype. Ideas like “biological sex” can often imply a lot of this. In medicine, that isn’t good enough. We have to be able to catch exceptions, side-effects, sequelae, and anomalies that might affect only one in a million patients. Exceptions to any one or more elements of the “biological sex” paradigm are much, much, much, much more common than that.

You genuinely do not know a patient’s chromosomes until you’ve run an expensive test, and even then, who knows! they could be a mosaic. Whether this information is important, and when, and why, depends. It all completely depends. A gender/sex/whatever marker on a form is not and never will be important. No matter how you cut it, is and always will be a miniscule source of information. Frankly, by disclosing a trans background on this form, the OP has made it more diagnostically useful to a clinician than that form has ever been before - we trans people are statistically very uncommon and tend to encounter distinct hardships and challenges that are highly relevant to our medical needs. Even then, it would still be no substitute for actually interviewing the patient.

So that’s the other thing you House addicts don’t have a clue about. Good doctors do “give a flying fuck” about how the patient identifies, because a patient’s background is absolutely key to their health. Knowing a patient’s basic demographics can help me think about what may be more or less likely in terms of their care needs.

More importantly, it helps me treat my patient with respect. This is both the decent thing to do and an absolute minimum requirement for being able to get anything done. You sneering choads couldn’t cure a side of beef.

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Acapella // Jordan & TC

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Despite everything that had happened in the last six months, this alone was theirs. He was safe here. No matter what happened, no matter how much shit went down elsewhere, no one could ever take this away from him. No one could ever stop him from feeling the appreciation and pleasure that Jordan gave him, knowing his body almost as well as hers. As always, he followed her lead, breath hitching as strong fingers dug into the sheets and tanned knuckles whitened, accompanied by frantic panting as she moved faster.

He'd like to think she moaned his name, hard as it was for her to talk. "Jordan," he choked out as she withdrew, meeting his gaze in an almost clinical way to assess how far along he was. If there was any doubt TC wasn't in her thrall, the desperation in his gaze would reassure her.

Eyes closing, he let out a loud groan when she took him in deeper, one hand entwining itself in her hair and curling around the back of her neck, grip firm but steady.

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[Muffled Like A Surgeon playing in the distance.]

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History’s Worst Contraceptives by Engender Health.

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you could be sad about your otp but consider:

one making awful breakfast for the other and the other eating it because they appreciate it that much

one putting their ridiculous music on in the car and singing along while the other sits in the passenger seat with their head in their hands

the two of them going down to the beach and one getting sunburned really badly so the other slathers them with aloe gel when they get home

one getting home from work later than the other and stretching out on top of them like a big lazy cat while they sit on the couch in front of the tv

one inexplicably bringing home an animal and refusing to drop it at the shelter so they and the other have to take care of it

the both of them going out to a park and getting ice cream to sit with and eat on a bench

one sending memes to the other while they’re at work so much they turn their phone off in exasperation

one giving the other their jacket and not getting it back from the other until it stops smelling like them