So much winning. All the participation trophies for the GOP's attempt to be bullies but their slings and arrows came back to hit them in the face instead. Aww.

I mean, what's the worst that could happen with a bunch of stressed out people rooming in communal living quarters or breathing the same recycled air on, say, a submarine?

🚨 Virginia has APPROVED the amendment for congressional redistricting, @nbcnews.com projects. A victory for Democrats that will help them gain several House seats in the 2026 midterms.

Woo hoo, that's me, folks! Dr. Alaska is ZERO DOLLARS right now!!

Thank you for posting!!

Ah, I see we've come to the "I was an SS officer but I was just following unfortunate orders and I'm reformed now" portion of the post-destruction trials

Sure, though I already used one The Pitt scene where they did the shoulder dystocia delivery WAY WRONG. I mean, there's only so much time to review mistakes, Sally!! :)

I wrote in this month's newsletter "Keep pushing back against fascism. Love will always win."

And the fact that I only had 3 people unsubscribe tells me that I've done a fabulous job cultivating my subscriber list with wonderful people!

I would reinforce the point that the resuscitative hysterotomy was NOT for eclamptic seizure; it was for cardiac arrest. You can have an eclamptic seizure, recover with mag, continue mag through labor, and deliver.

You do NOT have time to go into cardiac arrest and wait for induction and delivery.

Again, for a big hospital, there is an odd lack of Ob/peds/specialist availability... Seems to be a theme on The Pitt.

There was a surprising willingness of ER personnel to definitively treat the pregnant patient. I'd call that an outlier perspective in the average ER doc, but a welcome perspective

I did like the point made of how to perform resuscitative hysterotomy (xyphoid to pubic bone, straight down), 4 minutes to get baby out once CPR begins, and the fact that delivering the fetus oftentimes yields ROSC (return of spontaneous circulation).

They said "breech" but baby delivered vertex?

Ok, I saw the eclampsia scene on the Pitt. Why are they giving diazepam for initial treatment of eclamptic seizures? Why? The problem isn't epilepsy, it's eclampsia. Give 4-6gm Mag sulfate IV as first line treatment. Neuroprotective + addresses the underlying etiology. THEN seizure meds if need be.

Repeated COVID (infections) are ruining education.

People like to attribute kids failing to do the work to the few months they spent at home in 2020. Choosing to ignore that Covid causes measurable brain impairment and cumulative cognitive deficits in not only adults, but children too.

What the misogynistic, Nobel-prize-stealing hell? No iota of subtlety here. A box of absolute tools "came up with" this one. Probably stole the idea from a female colleague.

What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.

A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive.

One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.

Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.

(Published Dec. 2025)

a close up of a sandy beach with the words `` i 'm here '' written on the bottom . Alt: a close up of a sandy beach with the words `` i 'm here '' written on the bottom and a prairie dog popping its head up

See you tomorrow PM at the meet and greet?

See this right here is why I can't trust pre-election polling

Yes!!

I don't mean to brag, but I got a whole $10.51 in royalties this quarter from my original paranormal series I published back in 2015.

At this rate I should be a six-figure author in -- checks notes -- 2,273 years.

So I've got that going for me. 🤣

It's almost like smart citizens don't like to live in a fascist regime and vote accordingly.

No funding until the rot is out of that agency and they stop kidnapping and killing our neighbors

In Bruges scene where Colin Farrell is pointing a gun at his head and Brendon Gleeson is also pointing a gun at Colin Farrell's head

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

I mean what if -- hear me out here -- WHAT IF we took away all forms of birth control and all education that involves the use of birth control? (/s)

wHy IsN't cHiLd RapE aS pREvaLENt AnyMoRe aNd hOW cAn wE CHanGe ThAt?

Also, the fact that an old, white dude is the one they selected to comment on this "problem" is super duper gross.

they're so incompetent at literally everything they do

good grief (literally)

So they shot a rocket into space, broke the sound barrier, spun around a planet, then spun around a moon, then successfully re-entered the atmosphere and didn't die.

But we still can't get Cerner, Meditech, and Epic to communicate patient records and data? Really?

IT HAS BEEN 110 DAYS SINCE TRUMP’S DOJ WAS SUPPOSED TO RELEASE THE FULL EPSTEIN FILES. THEY STILL HAVE NOT. TIME TO HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE, CONGRESS!

It is the most dangerous kind of abuser that threatens to kill their partner, points the gun to their head, and then lowers the gun at the last possible minute.

That’s what Trump just did. 1/