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  • As a practicing family doctor:

    Women whose hepatitis B status is negative should talk with their doctors about vaccination, the recommendation says.

    “Your kid should should get the vaccine.” That was easy.

    The panel voted 6-4, with one member abstaining, to recommend testing children’s antibody levels after each hepatitis B shot to determine whether additional shots are needed.

    I’m not ordering unnecessary blood draws on an infant, that’s both asinine and mean. That’s two extra needle sticks to not change the number of vaccine sticks the kid gets at all (Hep B comes comboed with other vaccines, so they’d still get the exact same number of shots.)






  • It just wasn’t funny. It was a group of obnoxious young adults in apartments mugging for the camera while the laugh track assured us what they said was funny (it wasn’t.)

    The only episode that landed for me was the boys trying to move a couch upstairs with Ross shouting “PIVOT!” Otherwise, nothing really interesting happened. The “Smelly Cat” song everyone memed about was just grating.

    And I remember what was popular about it was Ross and Rachel. Which is mind-boggling, because they were both incredibly toxic and spent half their lives arguing over whether Ross cheated on her. Why would anyone root for that?


  • It was always a mediocre show, but was so massively popular at the time that any criticism was quickly drowned out and brushed away. But now the hype has died down and people are more openly talking about the show’s flaws.

    I personally thought it sucked back when it was new and have no interest in watching it now. I watched a handful of episodes as it had a syndication spot on my local networks, but just never got into it. (For the kids: Growing up on the East Coast, the dinner hours were generally news and 8-11 pm was “prime time” when new episodes of shows would air. In between shows would air reruns in syndication. So Friends was the filler I’d sometimes watch while waiting for the new shows to air.)






  • Have you heard the news everyone’s talking

    Life is good 'cause everything’s awesome

    Lost my job, there’s a new opportunity

    More free time for my awesome community

    I feel more awesome than an awesome possum

    Dip my body in chocolate frosting

    Three years later wash off the frosting

    Smelling like a blossom, Everything is awesome

    Stepped in mud, got new brown shoes

    It’s awesome to win and it’s awesome to lose


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    Nah, it’s estimated that about 90% of “sinus infections” in adults are actually viral.

    Your doctor just gave up and prescribed you antibiotics because you whined or they don’t care about antibiotic stewardship.

    Bonus points if they gave you azithromycin (Zpak,) which does basically nothing for bacterial sinus infections but has slight anti inflammatory properties to enhance that placebo effect for you until the viral infection naturally clears.




  • The Matrix, Office Space, American Beauty, and Fight Club all came out in 1999. They all starred white males between the ages of 30-40 who have become disillusioned with their soul sucking jobs in a consumerist society. They all have an epiphany that breaks them away from the corporate consumerist grind and rebel against it, before finally becoming a sage who can live in the world but not be destroyed by it. Except for Kevin Spacey’s character, but seriously, fuck that guy.

    Cipher’s a much better example. He’s tempted not with being an office drone, but with having a steak in a fancy restaurant, so being upper middle class? Anyway, that’s enough to get him to resort to literal murder.

    Anyway, 1999 was a weird year in film. It seems almost trite nowadays that having a stable job with stable housing and being able to afford Starbucks every day was the bane of human existence, when nowadays it’s living in the lap of luxury.