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More likely to rape adolescent girls. This is an epidemic being driven by rape.

This is the thing members of the public need to understand when they hear about healthcare understaffing and "shortages"

If we're understaffed, it's not just a matter of us working harder. It's a matter of corporations gambling with your lives and exploiting our commitment to our professional licenses to prevent that from happening. When faced with this untenable situation, we have no choice but to quit, and a lot of people have left healthcare entirely because they're tired of fighting with corporations rolling the dice.

At least part of the "shortages" you hear about are artificial, driven by these losses. Those people who left still exist, still have their training, and can renew their licenses and return to the industry if we can finally fix the horrific working conditions.

Ok this is great though

Yeah I never expected a nice day in December to bring such existential dread.

I'm one of these patients. I was successfully treated for an autoimmune brain condition of some sort. To this day, none of our clinical testing has ever showed any abnormality. I was treated based on detailed medical history and my insistence that my self-reported symptoms be taken seriously.

It took months to find a physician willing to treat me, and I still to this day don't understand what they were so afraid of. My self-reports of symptoms, patterns of exacerbations, and positive response to corticosteroids were consistent and unequivocal.

I was in nursing school at the time, and I don't know if that helped or hindered me. But I finally figured out how to speak the language that my physicians could understand, even though I was the patient. That shouldn't be necessary.

It's almost like people in the United States have the freedom to express their opinions on a matter. Imagine that!

Oh, you know the answer.

Next time you're in an argument with some misguided Libertarian "small government" "conservative" who claims they think the FDA should be dissolved, remember this moment.

This is literally the reason the FDA was started in the first place. Because greedy food manufacturers were killing children for profit.

Why are there so many Mexicos?? The Mexicos are multiplying, you guys. We're about to be overrun.

This kind of passive bigotry is necessary for genocides to occur. It is the foundation on which the mechanisms of genocide are built.

It's not just no good; it's terrifying.

In related news, we never even tried because people like making things up so they can continue being scared of their own shadows.

My friend, ongoing ignorance IS malice. I'm sorry to be the one to break this to you, but your family are just plain old racist.

(I say that as a person from a family full of very friendly, very racist people.)