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I started my House re-watch, want a preview of the first three episodes of season 1???

Season One (or: I don’t remember Wilson looking like such a baby the first time I saw this how old is Robert Sean Leonard in season one? THIRTY-FIVE?? FUCK)

In “Pilot” (or “Everybody Lies” if you’re feeling frisky) there’s not much going on in Vicodin Land. Our acetaminophen dose ranges from 1500-2250 mg. Boring.

“Paternity,” again, acetaminophen 1000-1500 mg.

Oh, “Occam’s Razor.” Dosage of acetaminophen is 1500-2250 mg, but this is our first medication tangent. Colchicine toxicity! Did you know the FDA told drug companies to stop manufacturing unapproved injectable colchicine in 2008?(1) Because I didn’t! There is no antidote for colchicine toxicity, it’s all supportive treatment. When I was re-watching this episode, I actually thought they confused colchicine for digoxin which I thought was weird because I feel like digoxin is so well known. But it turns out there is experimental colchicine-specific antibodies, but they’re not commercially available.(2) How did you get them, House? How did you get them so quickly?? Literally there is one published case report where they used Fab fragments for colchicine toxicity and it was published in 1995.(3) One patient! Nine years before this episode aired!

References

The Rheumatologist. FDA enforcement against injectable colchicine. https://www.the-rheumatologist.org/article/fda-enforcement-against-injectable-colchicine/. Accessed January 8, 2024.

Schier JG. Colchicine, podophyllin and the vinca alkaloids. In: Nelson LS, Howland M, Lewin NA, Smith SW, Goldfrank LR, Hoffman RS, eds. Goldfrank’s Toxicologic Emergencies, 11e. McGraw-Hill; 2019:537-547.

Baud FJ, et al. Treatment of severe colchicine overdose with colchicine-specific fab fragments. N Engl J Med. 1995;332:642-645.

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Between the Stork and Mortimer’s, Baby Café Society Packs Serafina

Mike Ghadamian is a regular at Serafina, an Italian restaurant on Madison Avenue at 79th Street. Sitting at a candlelit

Mike Ghadamian is a regular at Serafina, an Italian restaurant on Madison Avenue at 79th Street. Sitting at a candlelit table on a recent Friday evening, he took a sip of his complimentary drink and pointed to the table behind him.

“See that table?” he said in a raspy voice. “That’s table No. 50. That’s our table.” A waiter stopped to pat his back. “They know me very well here,” Mr. Ghadamian told a guest. He ordered “the usual,” penne alla vodka. “I haven’t changed my dish in months,” he said.

He smiled, revealing a mouth full of braces. Mike Ghadamian is 15. His complimentary drink: a Diet Coke.

Over the past two years, Serafina has served as a kind of dining club for the youth of the Upper East Side. On weekend nights between 7 and 10 p.m., the top floor of the bi-level restaurant–a pretty room with a brick floor, wicker chairs and a canvas roof that can be removed in the summer–fills up with pink-cheeked teenage Manhattanites chowing down on chicken paillard and $15 brick-oven pizzas as they make their plans for the latter part of the evening. Unlike their suburban counterparts, who make do with burgers and fries at McDonald’s, they aren’t fazed by Serafina’s $15 minimum food charge. “They all have mom and dad’s gold card,” said the restaurant’s general manager.

“It’s probably one of the more expensive places I go,” said Alison Goldfrank, a freshly scrubbed blond freshman at the Spence School. “But the food is amazing, so the prices are reasonable for food that great.”

“It’s a social place, and it’s nice,” said Jessica Haber, a freshman at Horace Mann School, who said she eats at Serafina almost every weekend. “It’s a bit pricey, but the food is really good,”

“The inside is cool and the food is awesome,” said Olivia Palermo, a freshman at St. Luke’s who used to go to Nightingale. “I go there maybe three times a month, and I usually see like five people I know.”

As he tucked into his penne, Mike Ghadamian looked happy. He’d had to go to a Shabbat family dinner at his grandmother’s house before he was released to go to his favorite restaurant.

At about 7:15 p.m., a redheaded 15-year-old boy, dressed in a baggy sweater and loose jeans, sat down with his older sister, a strawberry blonde wearing a gray shirt tucked into slim-fitting jeans. She looked at the menu while he talked on his cell phone. A few minutes later, two 16-year-old boys wearing baggy jeans and large sweatshirts arrived, high-fived the redheaded kid, then sat at their own table nearby. Three young women with long, straight hair came in and began self-consciously smoking cigarettes. By 8 p.m., two thirds of the room was filled with Upper East Side teens.

“Here’s how it works,” said one sophomore from Collegiate School. “We go with a big group of friends, everybody takes out their cell phones and puts them on the table, then we get a phone book and figure out where we’re going that night.”

“I always go with big groups,” said a blond, ponytailed freshman from the Dalton School. “And they yell at us because we all share plates and it’s really confusing.”

“You can always tell the high-schoolers because they travel in packs,” said Shalonda Harris, one of Serafina’s night managers. She said that nine times out of 10, she directs the teenagers to the top floor.

“I’m pretty sure they reserve the top floor for teens,” said Ms. Goldfrank, “because whenever I go with my dad, we sit on the first floor.”

The favorite menu item of most of the teens is Penne Alla Stolichnaya. Which brings up the question: If they like vodka in their pasta, are they getting away with ordering it in their drinks?

The general manager said the restaurant is strict about making sure that they only serve those with proper identification.

“They do ask for ID, but a lot of my friends have fake ones and they get served all the time,” claimed one freshman.

“Oh, they never serve us alcohol,” said Mr. Ghadamian.

“Of course not,” added his friend Steven Chase, a sophomore at the Horace Mann School.

The staff doesn’t seem to mind the teen explosion.

“So far they have never been a problem,” said Abul Waliullah, who has been waiting tables at Serafina for four years. “They’re really nice and they tip O.K.”

Mike Ghadamian finished his penne and wiped his mouth. “I get treated like a king here,” he said. “I didn’t even order these Cokes.”

N.Y.’s

Manhattan’s pampered young males are in a panic. They may have money, they may have love, but they have no Kiehl’s.

For several weeks now, well-scrubbed young men in New York City have been cursing the mysterious disappearance of Kiehl’s Ultimate Men’s After Shave Moisturizer, the cultishly popular yellow, odorless facial lotion made by the venerable cosmetics manufacturer (established 1851).

“Of course I know about it [the Kiehl’s shortage]!” said a 32-year-old Manhattan attorney who, after confessing to keeping an “arsenal” of Kiehl’s products, asked that his name not be used. “It kills me!”

A Kiehl’s spokesperson confirmed the after-shave shortage, describing it as national. “We’ve been out of stock for six weeks,” she said. “We have requests daily for it.”

Face-Men Frenzy

Manhattan’s pampered young males are in a panic. They may have money, they may have love, but they have no Kiehl’s.

For several weeks now, well-scrubbed young men in New York City have been cursing the mysterious disappearance of Kiehl’s Ultimate Men’s After Shave Moisturizer, the cultishly popular yellow, odorless facial lotion made by the venerable cosmetics manufacturer (established 1851).

“Of course I know about it [the Kiehl’s shortage]!” said a 32-year-old Manhattan attorney who, after confessing to keeping an “arsenal” of Kiehl’s products, asked that his name not be used. “It kills me!”

A Kiehl’s spokesperson confirmed the after-shave shortage, describing it as national. “We’ve been out of stock for six weeks,” she said. “We have requests daily for it.”

The spokesperson said the shortage was the result of the demand for the after-shave outstripping its production. She estimated that it would be back on shelves in New York by March 1.

But that is small consolation for the legions of New York men who–following years of post-pubescent, Aqua Velva agony–had finally settled upon a lotion for life.

“I love it!” publicist Jake Spitz, 26, said of the after-shave, which retails at $13.50 for four ounces and $20.50 for eight ounces. “It’s the first product I put on my face that worked.”

Mr. Spitz said he had recently tried to pick up some Kiehl’s after-shave as a 26th-birthday gift for his friend, the restaurant-guide scion Ted Zagat, but couldn’t find it anywhere. (Kiehl’s rations out its products to its own shop on Third Avenue and 13th Street, and to department stores like Barneys, Saks and Nieman Marcus.) He was forced to settle for other Kiehlsphernalia.

But other Kiehl’s after-shave devotees refused to take no for an answer. “I heard rumors that there was some being held under the counter at Barneys–if you know the right people,” said Boykin Curry, a 35-year-old investor. Alas, a reporter who checked that story out the next day was told firmly that no, the store had no more Kiehl’s.

–Deborah Schoeneman

Flash Fame

My girlfriend Rachel is one of those people who reads magazine listings, even though, to be honest, we hardly ever go anywhere. That explains how she found our photograph one night while flipping through the front pages of the Feb. 5 issue of The New Yorker .

We were on page 17. The photograph, by a man named Gus Powell, captured a crowded midday scene in front of the Amoco gas station at the busy northwest corner of Broadway and Houston Street. At the center was a lanky young black man surveying the intersection from his perch atop of a pair of pay telephones. Above him, on a billboard to his right, was a giant, shirtless, hairless Calvin Klein model.

I appeared in the foreground of the picture’s left side, looking upward with my left hand cupped over my eyes. Unshaven and wearing a hat advertising the then-hip, now-defunct Internet company Pseudo.com, I looked a tad haggard. Rachel, clad in overalls, was walking to my left, looking off in another direction.

“At first I just thought, ‘Hey, that blond woman looks a lot like me,'” Rachel said, “‘but she’s way too skinny.’ Then I thought, ‘That is me.’ A while later, I noticed you.”

“We’re famous,” I said.

“No,” Rachel replied. “We’re art.”

Everyone had their own take on the photograph. Rachel’s boss wanted to know what she was doing downtown at lunch. Rachel’s aunt, from Utah, had a practical take: “Wow–look at those gas prices!” she said. My dad e-mailed, comparing my physique unfavorably to the Calvin Klein model’s. (“Maybe the photographer was going for a

juxtaposition,” another person offered.)

These reconstructions were as good as ours: Try as we might, neither Rachel nor I could remember the moment at all.

When I met Gus Powell at the Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery in Soho, he understood our confusion immediately. “Kind of a Rashomon thing?” he said.

Mr. Powell was 6 feet 5 inches tall, lanky and 26, the same age as me. He looked like Milhouse van Houten from The Simpsons grown up: floppy hair, round glasses and a cashmere V-neck sweater-vest.

He grew up on East 58th Street and works as a freelance photo editor at The New Yorker (a -ha !). He said he takes most of his photographs while wandering around the city on his lunch break. (Hence the title of his series, “Lunch Pictures.”)

“You always find something that’s this ridiculous New York thing,” Mr. Powell explained. This time he was attracted to the man perched on the phone booths. Mr. Powell said he stood on the curb and began snapping pictures. “The thing that I always love is, some people check him out and some people don’t. Like, your girlfriend is checking him out.”

Mr. Powell continued: “For me the payoff is, when I’m walking and I see something remarkable, I don’t want to just nail the remarkable thing. I want to keep it in context … so then you become just as interesting. Because you help. You made the picture much better.”

I looked down at my shoes. “Well, thank you very much.”

On the way in, I had noticed that someone had already bought the photograph for $600. Apparently, that’s what being published in a major magazine can do.

This weekend, Rachel and I have a project: We’re cutting out page 17, framing it and hanging it in our bathroom.

[goldfrank-blog]

“Thug life” 2 pac. Thanks Ethan. We got there eventually mate. Definitely down for the subject matter on this one. Who’s next?? Biggie? #tattoo #tattoos #2pac #2pactattoo #freehand #brotherhoodleeds #leedstattoo #goldfrank (at Brotherhood tattoo studio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJHHcerHlqQ/?igshid=1rvxk6zu2bsgq

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A low-quality but carefully-sourced image of Esther Schiff Goldfrank, via Anthropology News September 1997. Goldfrank was born this day in 1896. An anthropology major at Barnard, she became Franz Boas’s assistant. and then turned in to an anthropologist in her own right. In addition to her published works was the president of the American Ethnological Society. She had a long life and many adventures which she recounts in her detailed and gossipy autobiography Notes on an Undirected Life. She died just 12 days short of her 101st birthday. Happy birthday!

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History Articles Masterpost

I was going the files on my external hard drive today and found a bunch of journal articles and dissertations I downloaded and decided to upload them for people who are interested. They're mostly about the Middle Ages, women's history, troubadours, the Soviet Union, and/or historical figures I find interesting because ... that's just how I roll. MEDIEVAL HISTORY — GENERAL

The Armagnac Faction: New Patterns of Political Violence in Late Medieval France – Timur R. Pollack-Lagushenko

Exemplar King and Doting Parent: Examining the Role of Fatherhood in the Life of Edward III, c.  1320-1377 – Nicole Harding

Harold of England: The Romantic Revision of the Last Anglo-Saxon King – María José Gómez

Jews and Cathari in Medieval France – John M. O’Brien

King Henry III and Saint Edward the Confessor: The Origins of the Cult – D.A. Carpenter

Memory and Collective Identity in Occitanie: The Cathars in History and Popular Culture – Emily McCaffrey

Murder, Mayhem, and a Very Small Penis: Motives for Revenge in the 1375 Murder of William Cantilupe – Frederik Pedersen

The “Sale” of Carcassonne to the Counts of Barcelona (1067-1070) and the Rise of the Trencavels – Fredric L. Cheyette

Stephen of Blois, Count of Mortain and Boulogne – Edmund King

MEDIEVAL HISTORY — WOMEN

The Anglo-Norman Card of Adela of Blois – Kimberly A. LoPrete

The Campaigns of Matilda of Tuscany – Valerie Eads

“Désirant tout, envahissant tout, ne connaissant le prix de rien”: Materiality in the Queenship of Isabeau of Bavaria – Yen M. Duong

Gender and the Language of Politics in Thirteenth‐Century Queens’ Letters – Anaïs Waag

Heavy Is the Head That Wears the Crown: Contemporary Reputations and Historical Representations of Queens Regent – Jessica Donovan

Isabeau of Bavaria, Queen of France (1385-1422): The Creation of an Historical Villainess – Rachel Gibbons

Negotiating Princely Power in Late Medieval France: Jeanne de Penthièvre, Duchess of Brittany (c.1325-1384) – Erika Maëlan Graham-Goering

The Piety, Power, and Patronage of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem’s Queen Melisende – Helen A. Gaudette

The Politics of Queen Philippa’s Mottoes: Five English Words – Melissa Furrow

The Reputation of the Queen and Public Opinion: The Case of Isabeau of Bavaria – Tracy Adams and Glenn Rechtschaffen

Studies in the History of Queen Melisende of Jerusalem – Hans Eberhard Mayer

Valentina Visconti, Charles VI, and the Politics of Witchcraft – Tracy Adams

The War of the Two Jeannes: Rulership in the Fourteenth Century – Katrin Sjursen

MEDIEVAL CULTURE

The Autumn of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga (review) – Max Staples

The Avatars of Orable-Guibourc from French chanson de geste to Italian romanzo cavalleresco. A Persistent Multiple Alterity – Philip E. Bennett, Krupina Zarker Morgan

Critical Analysis of the Roles of Women in the Lais of Marie de France – Jeri S. Guthrie

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman (review) – Bernard S. Bachrach

Managing Medieval Misogyny – M. Wendy Hennequin

The Minor Trobairitz: An Edition with Translation and Commentary – Deborah Perkal-Balinsky

Poetry of Exclusion: A Feminist Reading of Some Troubadour Lyrics – Simon Gaunt

Private Desire and Public Identity in Trobairitz Poetry – Laurel Amtower

Writing Beneath the Shadow of Heresy: The Historia Albigensis of Brother Pierre des Vaux-de-Cernay – Christopher M. Kurpiewski

BYZANTINE HISTORY AND RUSSIAN HISTORY — MEDIEVAL AND TSARIST

Attacking the Empire’s Achilles Heels: Railroads and Terrorism in Tsarist Russia – Frithjof Benjamin Schenk

Kinship and the Distribution of Power in Komnenian Byzantium – Peter Frankopan

Lamentation, History, and Female Authorship in Anna Komnene’s Alexiad – Leonora Neville

Muscovy and the Mongols : What's What and What's Maybe – David M. Goldfrank

The Revolutionary, His Wife, the Party, and the Sympathizer: The Role of Family Members and Party Supporters in the Release of Revolutionary Prisoners – Katy Turton

RUSSIAN HISTORY — SOVIET

Agency and Terror: Evdokimov and Mass Killing in Stalin’s Great Terror – S. Wheatcroft

Between Right and Left: G. Ia. Sokolnikov and the Development of the Soviet State, 1921-1929 – Samuel A. Oppenheim

Bukharin and the Social Study of Science – Constantine D. Skordoulis

Did Stalin Kill Kirov and Does It Matter? – Matt Lenoe

First Russian Biographies of Trotsky: A Review Article – Ian D. Thatcher

“A Grand Bloodbath”: The Western Reaction to Joseph Stalin’s 1930s Show Trials as Foreign Policy – Jeffrey L. Achterhof

The Legacy of Lunacharsky and Artistic Freedom in the USSR – Howard R. Holter

Lunacharsky, the “Poet-Commissar” – A. L. Tait

Lunacharsky and the Rescue of Soviet Theatre – John J. Von Szeliski

Maria Spiridonova’s “Last Testament” – Alexander Rabinowitch

Marketing for Socialism: Soviet Cosmetics in the 1930s – Olga Kravets and Özlem Sandikçi

On the “Letter of an Old Bolshevik” as an Historical Document – Robert C. Tucker

Patronage and Betrayal in the Post-Stalin Succession: The Case of Kruglov and Serov – Timothy K. Blauvelt

“Socialism of Science” versus “Socialism of Feelings”: Bogdanov and Lunacharsky – Georgii D. Gloveli, John Biggart

Stalin and the Politics of Kinship: Practices of Collective Punishment, 1920s-1940s – Golfo Alexopoulos

Stalin’s Falsification of History: The Case of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty – Sydney D. Bailey

The Terrorist and the Master Spy: The Political Partnership of Boris Savinkov and Sidney Reilly, 1918-25 – Richard B. Spence

Trotsky’s Interpretation of Stalin – Robert H. McNeal

Tukhachevsky in Leningrad: Military Politics and Exile, 1928-31 – David R. Stone

Zinoviev: Populist Leninist – Lars T. Lih

Zinoviev’s Revolutionary Tactics in 1917 – Myron W. Hedlin

HISTORY — MISC.

Dark Religion? Aztec Perspectives on Human Sacrifice – Ray Kerkhove

The Empress Elisabeth of Austria and Her “Untidy” Collection – Beth Muellner

Isotta Nogarola: The Beginning of Gender Equality in Europe – Luka Borsic and Ivana Skuhala Karasman

Love (and Marriage) Between Women – Alan Cameron

Pari Khan Khanum: A Masterful Safavid Princess – Shohreh Gholsorkhi

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Goldfrank's Toxicologic Emergencies, Eleventh Edition By Lewis Nelson PDF EBOOK EPUB

Goldfrank’s Toxicologic Emergencies, Eleventh Edition By Lewis Nelson PDF EBOOK EPUB

Goldfrank’s Toxicologic Emergencies, Eleventh Edition By Lewis Nelson PDF EBOOK EPUB Goldfrank’s is the premier toxicology textbook that should be in every emergency department or poison center library. Whether you are a student, resident, or faculty, there is something here for you. If you are a toxicology fellow or poison specialist studying for your boards, this is your go-to book. I highly…

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Goldfrank's Toxicologic Emergencies, Eleventh Edition By Lewis Nelson PDF EBOOK EPUB

Goldfrank’s Toxicologic Emergencies, Eleventh Edition By Lewis Nelson PDF EBOOK EPUB

Goldfrank’s Toxicologic Emergencies, Eleventh Edition By Lewis Nelson PDF EBOOK EPUB Goldfrank’s is the premier toxicology textbook that should be in every emergency department or poison center library. Whether you are a student, resident, or faculty, there is something here for you. If you are a toxicology fellow or poison specialist studying for your boards, this is your go-to book. I highly…

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MBTI Book Tag

Tagged by @notaboutfate​.

1. First things first, what is your MBTI type?

INTJ

2. When did you learn to read?

... I actually have no idea? Dad guessed 6 years old? But that can’t be right, I had the impression I hit the milestone close to the “average” age? His memory and involvement of my early childhood is not exactly reliable (and neither is mine, in all honesty). This is surprisingly upsetting that I don’t know, because I think Mom would know but she’s gone. :[

3. What languages can you read in?

English.

4. What books are you currently reading or most recently read?

“Resilient Grieving: Finding Strength and Embracing Life After a Loss That Changes Everything“, by Lucy Hone, PhD.

5. Name 3 books you never finished:

- “Lies My Teacher Told Me” by James W. Loewen - ”Emergency Doctor“ by Edward Ziegler & Lewis R. Goldfrank M.D. - “Bird by Bird“ by Anne Lamott

6. What are your favorite books from childhood?

- “Hidden Talents“ by David Lubar - “Gil’s All-Fright Diner“ by A. Lee Martinez - “Maximum Ride“ by James Patterson - ”Dangerous Girls“ by R. L. Stine - “Things Not Seen“ by Andrew Clements - ”Valiant: A Modern Fairy Tale“ by Holly Black - “The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales“ by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith - “Guess How Much I Love You“ by Sam McBratney & Anita Jeram

7. What are your current favorite books?

- "John Dies At The End” by David Wong - ”Frankenstein“ by Mary Shelley - “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers“ by Mary Roach - All of Dennis DiClaudio’s Pocket Guides (”Paranoid’s...”, “Hypochondriac’s...” , and “Deviant’s...”) - All of “Marvel Zombies” (If comic books count... <_< )

Multiple Choice (bold as many as apply to you & add your own choice if you must)

8. Your favorite genres:

Mystery / Sci-fi / Chick Lit / Young Adult / Horror / Nonfiction / Memoirs / Dystopias / Poetry / Self-Help / Historical Fiction / Fanfiction / Realistic Fiction / Biographies / Satire - Black Comedy / Philosophy / Fantasy

9. Your opinion on rereading books:

I do it all the time / It has to be a really good book / I can’t stand it / I haven’t done it since I was a child / I only reread my favorite sections.

10. How long does it take you to read one book on average?

Probably way too long. When I was younger I think I could read a YA novel in a few days. But now, due to mental health shit, it’s hard to really sit down and focus on reading more than interesting non-fiction stuff (in the form of articles online, mostly). And I have still so many unread books on my shelf. (I’m looking at you “World War Z.”) :/

11. How do you typically read?

Every opportunity I get, in transit, while waiting, etc. / Before bed (also, upon waking provided I don’t have work that day) / On the go by audiobook / When I can truly relax / When I remember to.

12. How many books do you typically read in a year?

None or 1 / About 1 to 3 / Maybe 4 to 10 / At least more than 10 / At least 50 / Too much. I can’t keep track

13. For school assigned books, what type of student are/were you?

I read all the books in detail / I read all but sometimes skimmed / I nearly read all, I may have skipped a few because they were too boring / I only read the interesting ones / There’s a reason why Sparknotes was made!

Tagging: I... don’t know. Uh. Anyone reading this who might be interested, I guess?? ?

[waronbirthcontrol-blog]

Pros & Cons of Birth Control (edit)

Women have been enjoying the benefits and advantages of the birth control pill since it was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on May 9, 1960. The woman who made that happen was Margaret Sanger (1879–1966). Sanger had won for most women in the U.S. the right to use contraception. Now, she would develop a method that was nearly 100 percent effective. It was advocated as a major medical breakthrough. Today, there are many kinds of synthetic contraception, and these pharmaceutical products have multiple medical consequences. They are used as medications to ‘adjust’ the menstrual cycle, prescribed to reduce acne, and recommended to help regulate endometriosis. Most women can safely use birth control pills, but the use of these pills may carry some risks and/or side effects.

Pros of birth control

Very effective against pregnancy

No interruption of foreplay or intercourse

May cause light or no menstrual periods

Reduced pain during ovulation

Can be taken if you have health problems, such as a high risk of heart disease, blood clots, high blood pressure or migraines

Can be used during breastfeeding

Offers a quick return to fertility if you hope to get pregnant

Non-contraceptive benefits of combination birth control pills

Combination contraception can also provide health benefits! Birth control pills may offer you some protection against:

Osteoporosis

Acne

Ovarian cysts

Iron deficiency anemia (which can result in heavy periods)

Excess body hair

Vaginal dryness and painful intercourse

Cancer protection and the pill

Both birth control pills and hormonal IUDs can significantly reduce the risk of ovarian cancer and endometrial cancer. According to Dr. Goldfrank, using birth control pills can actually reduce ovarian cancer risk by up to 50%. He stated this protection appears to last for many years after stopping use. The pill can also significantly lower the risk of endometrial cancer.

Since hormonal IUDs thin the endometrial lining, they can sometimes be used to prevent or treat (even better!) early-stage endometrial cancer. Similar to the pill, hormonal IUDs also appear to reduce the risk of ovarian cancer.

Cons of birth control

No protection against sexually transmitted infections, including HIV

Headaches

Nausea (sometimes with vomiting)

Change sexual desire

Decrease your interest in watching pornography

Progestin-only birth control pills may lead to irregular spotting and bleeding (at least, more frequently than with combination pills).

Side effects such as irregular menstrual bleeding, ovarian cysts, decreased libido, breast tenderness, acne, weight gain, depression and hirsutism

Slightly increased risk that if pregnancy occurs it will be ectopic — the fertilized egg implants outside the uterus.

My main argument here is gender and contraception go hand-in-hand. Many people, including myself, feel that the burden of contraception falls mostly on women, and that most men don’t have to worry about it. My main question is: Why is contraception the woman’s responsibility? No really. Why? Why is a male pill deemed unsuitable because it caused headaches but I’m at higher risk of pulmonary embolisms because I take the pill. Why are condoms not “fun” so it’s expected that a woman should have an IUD or a small plastic thing inserted in her cervix? Women have been putting themselves through all these risks to not get pregnant while men do nothing. The implant in my arm has made me depressed and headaches. Yet, asking a man to put on condoms during sex is like mission impossible. Most of them would come up with all these excuses on why they DON'T want to. 

Sources

Parenthood, P. (n.d.). What Are the Benefits & Advantages of Birth Control Pills? Retrieved from https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/birth-control/birth-control-pill/what-are-the-benefits-of-the-birth-control-pill

Birth Control: Pros and Cons of Hormonal Methods. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.uofmhealth.org/health-library/tw9513

Birth Control Pills: Benefits, Risks and Effectiveness. (2016, September 02). Retrieved from https://americanpregnancy.org/preventing-pregnancy/birth-control-pills/

Eig, J. (2014). The birth of the pill: How four crusaders reinvented sex and launched a revolution. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. (Class source)

Giuseppe Benagiano, Carlo Bastianelli & Manuela Farris (2007) Contraception: A social revolution, The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care (Class source)

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Goldfrank's Toxicologic Emergencies, Eleventh Edition - Lewis S. Nelson, Robert S. Hoffman, Mary Ann Howland, Neal A. Lewin & Lewis R. Goldfrank

Goldfrank's Toxicologic Emergencies, Eleventh Edition Lewis S. Nelson, Robert S. Hoffman, Mary Ann Howland, Neal A. Lewin & Lewis R. Goldfrank Genre: Emergency Medicine Price: $279.99 Publish Date: August 22, 2018 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education Seller: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. The best edition yet of the landmark text in medical toxicology A Doody’s Core Title for 2019! Covering every aspect of poison management, this indispensable case-based resource has been thoroughly refreshed to deliver evidence-based principles viewed through the lens of an active bedside clinical practice. In no other reference will you find such a diverse roster of esteemed editors and authors who deliver expert insights into every type of toxicologic emergency, whether due to substance abuse or exposure to toxins. Fully referenced and supported by a cohesive organization and full-color format, Goldfrank’s begins with a historical perspective on medical toxicology principles and the general approach to the patient. It then progresses to the fundamental principles of medical toxicology, encompassing biochemical and molecular concepts; the effect of xenobiotics on vital organs and body systems; and toxicologic principles in special populations. The Eleventh Edition of Goldfrank’s Toxicologic Emergencies is the most rigorous volume to date, driven by a precise analysis of the latest medical literature and complex cases designed to facilitate differential diagnosis. New to this Edition: •Additional cases and “Special Considerations” chapters designed to enhance clinical decision-making and patient outcomes •New “Antidotes in Depth” provides timely, critical information on toxicologic treatment strategies •New content on toxicogenomics explores its increasingly important role in predictive toxicology •Chapter-ending bulleted summaries of key points •Updated coverage of synthetics such as “K2” •Revised chapters on medical, clinical, and chemical toxicology include updated insights on poison emergencies, treatment strategies, and risk assessment tools http://dlvr.it/R5wx5q

[mandelene]

Your medical prompts are by far the best I've ever read. By chance, do you happen have any other medical reads you would suggest? Fiction? Nonfiction? Books? Or Fanfiction? Etc? I find the subject quite intriguing, especially because I plan on becoming a med student in college.

Thank you! I’m glad you enjoy them, and it’s so awesome that you’re planning on becoming a med student! As for more medical reads, you might want to check out this book: Emergency Doctor, by Edward Ziegler and Lewis R. Goldfrank, M.D. Personally, I haven’t read it yet, but I’ve heard wonderful things. It’s similar to the other book I recommended a little while ago, except it follows the lives of new doctors in the ER specifically. There are tons of memoirs from doctors out there, and I’d recommend reading at least a few in the course of your med school journey for motivation because in the midst of dense textbook readings, writing research papers, and doing clinical rotations, you’ll reach the inevitable question that all of the doctors/nurses I know have asked themselves at some point–”Why am I doing this?” And for those moments, those memoirs will be emotional crutches. 

I haven’t read any medical fanfics out there so far that really made me go “Wow, that’s a pretty accurate reflection of how the medical field works,” which is kind of a bummer because I’d love to read some. Even the fandoms that are specifically oriented around medicine like House M.D. are a little farfetched sometimes. That’s not to say my fanfics are 100% accurate either because they’re definitely not, but I have a pet peeve about characters magically being revived from comas, surviving fatal injuries, or having super rare, almost impossible illnesses, etc., so I’ve kind of stopped actively searching for more medical fics, but if anyone reads this post and can recommend a few ones to share with everyone else, please let me know! (Or I can make a follow up post with tips for writing medical stories.) If you need some lighthearted music about medicine to help you through your studies, I would highly recommend the Amateur Transplants on YouTube. They’re two British doctors that sing about the quirks of working in medicine, and they’re great. I used to send my sister all of their songs when she was still in nursing school, and she got a good laugh out of them. My personal song favorites are “Finals Countdown,” “Anaesthetists Hymn,” “The Drugs Song,” and “Finals Fantasy.” I hope this was a little helpful! And good luck in everything you do! Lots of love, -Mandelene

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There are not that many Highly Accurate images of Esther Schiff Goldfrank out there but the Glenbow Museum in Calgary has digitized a large portion of her fieldwork archive, albeit in small form. Goldfrank started out as Boas’s secretary and then developed into an anthropologist in her own right. Her scarce but vivid Notes on an Undirected Life  depicts her life in detail, and spends a fair amount of time taking aim at other, more well-known but less ethnographically accomplished authors (read: Ruth Benedict) for the limits of their work!

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Goldfrank’s Toxicologic Emergencies, Tenth Edition Goldfrank's Toxicologic Emergencies, Tenth Edition by Robert Hoffman, Mary Ann Howland, Neal Lewin, Lewis Nelson, and Lewis Goldfrank