KREUZADER

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
foone the-real-seebs
foone

My only problem with the concept of "gender is a spectrum" is I'm afraid that means the US government will put the FCC in charge of it.

messierobject65

This is. . . a great idea? I'd have to have a W prefix b/c I live east of the Mississippi but I'm OK with that.

foone

The new gender binary: when the FCC takes over allocating the gender spectrum, would they assign you a callsign beginning with W or K?

the-real-seebs

I once saw a TV station change from W to K! The local NBC affiliate snagged WUSA, and then a larger thing said "wait that's a really good callsign, let's steal it" and made them pick a new one, but because they're basically ON the river, they were able to get permission to pick K, and became KARE.

foone

I support our trans TV stations!

3liza homeofhousechickens
the-lincyclopedia

This maybe sounds mean, but I think we should be able to send doctors “hey, you were wrong” letters.

I was misdiagnosed with asthma when I was 12 and took asthma meds daily for seven years, and then it turned out I hadn’t had asthma in the first place; I actually have a different breathing problem. I don’t think the doctor who told me I had asthma (my pediatrician, who I was no longer seeing by that point) ever found out she’d been wrong. (This is one of at least four misdiagnoses in my life, from a variety of doctors, that I can think of off the top of my head.) Similarly, my first therapist told me she didn’t think I was autistic because I wasn’t obsessed with trains. I don’t think she ever found out that I am, in fact, autistic, because I wasn’t seeing her by the time I was diagnosed.

I get that it might be demoralizing to have someone contact you specifically to tell you that you messed up, but I think it would be useful for doctors to have data on how often they misdiagnose patients, especially since some doctors tend to think the patient is generally wrong when attempting self-diagnosis. It would be useful for my former therapist to move me from the mental column of “people who erroneously think they’re autistic” to “people whose autism I did not notice when they were right in front of me.” It would be useful for my pediatrician to realize she needed to look more closely and listen to kids when their breathing symptoms weren’t the classic asthma ones.

Doctors can get on their high horse and refuse to believe patients a lot of the time, and the power dynamic makes that dangerous in plenty of situations. I think it would be helpful to have a way to at least alert doctors when we have proof they messed up.

3liza

i do this as much as possible. i have on several occasions told doctors they were wrong about a previous diagnosis. you can also leave reviews on several online places now which is helpful to future patients. write the review in correct grammar and with a calm tone, this helps you not look like a lunatic with either a grudge or a misunderstanding of medicine. the situation we have now where people don’t have the same doctor long enough for that doctor to actually be accountable for mistakes is intentional and it is increasing the number of medical errors

if you have MyChart or another patient portal send that little bitch a DM!!!
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Some of Syd Mead’s concept art for Blade Runner, upscaled to wallpaper res 3840x2160, cropped, denoised, color corrected and otherwise edited for the screen. These are NOT the originals as produced by Mr. Mead, if you are looking for 1:1 unmolested versions of the original art this isn’t it.

(I’m not sure Tumblr will host these at the original full-res without downsampling them? See what happens I guess)

I zipped the full-sizes on my Dropbox if you should want them.

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