In case anyone’s wondering is because getting an x ray once is so barely harmful that it rounds to zero but standing in front of an x ray emitter 40 hours a week for years will definitely kill you
If I go to the bar and have one drink with the bartender I’ll be fine. If the bartender has a drink with every patron then they will die
… I honestly never considered that. It seems so obvious but never crossed my mind. Thank you, twinkcommunist and iridepigs.
“When I went under, the world was at war. I wake up, they say we won. They didn’t say what we lost.”
I gotta wonder how much of Steve’s craptastic immune system came from surviving the 1918 flu. I mean, babies can get the flu, and this strain was a million times more contagious than usual. Literally.
How about that auscultation is a GIANT part of medicine, and being able to hear in an emergency is important, and fobbing that off on nurses and other doctors is unfair, and Daphne Sue not getting something she wants for once doesn’t make everyone who points it out an ableist? That scene with her and Natalie in the hospital could’ve been used to pave the way for her considering a career as an interpreter. Opportunity ignored!
How about that not everyone has the capacity to spend their lives raising a severely disabled child and that is OKAY? If I were pregnant and scans showed DS, I would abort because I WOULD UNDOUBTEDLY KILL MYSELF WITHIN A FEW YEARS from the combination of my disabilities and theirs. I’m already prone to suicide attempts.
Death By Catchphrase 