Minnesota still refuses to give the flag they captured back to Virginia. I think there have been a couple lawsuits about it too.

The general sentiment is “We won it. It’s ours now. You can’t have it back and you asking for it back means you still identify with the Confederacy.”

It absolutely was not the right call. In the ER, we use stuff like Haldol for combative patients, it’s substantially less dangerous for the patient, but it takes a couple minutes to kick in.

The biggest risk with ketamine is the tachycardia, but the other most common twilight sedative, propofol, runs a higher risk of the recipient slowing or stopping their breathing. In my medical experience, ketamine is commonly used for twilight sedation to set broken bones, and propofol is commonly used for short procedures like colonoscopies.

Compared to other sedatives, ketamine can have a safer effect profile in that it doesn’t mess with the person’s breathing and doesn’t massively slow down their heart rate. An excessive dose can result in a heart rate that is too high and that can collapse into cardiac arrest, but other fast-acting sedatives usually mean that you have to intubate the person because they aren’t going to be breathing adequately on their own until the drug wears off.

They have something like a 45% false positive rate because of the microscopic blood test and really are more of a scam than anything else in my opinion.

Don’t bother with the mail-in test if you know you have hemorrhoids. It tests for DNA fragments from tumors and for microscopic traces of blood. If it comes back positive, they don’t tell you if it was positive for the tumor DNA or for blood, and you’ll have to get a colonoscopy anyways.

Cologuards are only good for 3 years at most, and a colonoscopy is good for 10 years if it comes back clean. Just save your money and go straight to the colonoscopy because the hemorrhoids will likely pop a false positive on the mail-in test.

Edit: Also! If you have a positive cologuard, the ensuing colonoscopy has to get billed as “diagnostic” instead of as “screening” and insurance pays for it differently.

There are a variety of jobs available, and I’ve seen some workers with physical disabilities or older workers that aren’t very strong working things like the register or the administrative things like the return counter. For the most part, everything arrives on pallets that are moved around with forklifts anyways. Unless you’re in the butcher, baker, or display departments, there probably isn’t that much physical labor involved.

What are the qualification requirements besides paying the membership fee?

Hey, input from non-medical professionals can be helpful too. If there was a medical treatment or procedure you weren’t sure about or heard negative things about, what would you want to know?

There’s special kinds of short-term Medicaid for emergency room treatment and associated hospitalization. And they can’t deny a resuscitation as “not medically necessary”.

Preventative care is DIRT CHEAP compared to any treatment or management of any condition.

This is one of the reasons I want to be a night shift emergency medicine physician. No one is calling me at 2 in the morning to argue with me running a code for insurance reasons.

Oh, they’ll absolutely still pull that shit, but there are a ton of medical practices that have a separate waiting list for Medicaid patients because they only accept a certain percentage of their patients being on Medicaid. UHC will still leave you with the bill, but having Medicaid can make it difficult to even see the specialist in the first place regardless of how much it will cost.

Oh, a bunch of us know, but because of gerrymandering and the ignorance of the larger populace, there’s not a goddamn thing we can do about it.

I actually purchased Thor: Ragnarok so that I could watch it repeatedly. I love it so much. I’m pretty sure about 90% of that movie was ad-libbed by Taika just giving them a vague outline of what the scene is supposed to be about and then just setting the actors loose to improv to their heart’s content.

Edit: Also, watching Galadriel (Cate Blanchett) absolutely kill it as the most exasperated evil queen is one of my favorite things in a movie ever.

They’ll probably need specialty pulmonology care later in life and a lot of public insurance plans either don’t cover it, or the waiting lists for Medicaid patients are obscene. At least UHC would get you onto the shorter waiting list.

Also, many of them are ineligible to become actual firefighters after their release from prison due to their criminal record. I would be slightly more okay with this system if it translated into a guaranteed position as a firefighter following release if they agree to go to an area in need like in smaller communities that have trouble recruiting firefighters.

At least serial killers acknowledge how they got those trophies instead of pretending they stole priceless cultural artifacts and vandalized them to match their own aesthetics to “preserve and protect them” because the original owners would have just “squandered” those artifacts. (Looking at you, British Museum and your theft and desecration of the Elgin marbles.)

I have interpreted it less as “the hobbits are less powerful”, and more as “what would a powerful hobbit even want?”.

If a hobbit had all the power in Middle Earth, they would have an amazingly cozy hobbit hole with the best food and their parties and garden would be the envy of every hobbit and probably some elves and men. Hobbits don’t really have much interest in conquest, and their definition of dominance includes being well-liked or admired by those they dominate.

That is an insult to Babish.