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“When you cook pancakes, there’s always a bad pancake. You can’t throw food away. You need somebody around who will eat it.”
Bad pancake
“Most people don’t understand what an ectopic pregnancy even is. The egg is literally outside of the uterus. There’s no chance for it to become viable, but the treatment falls under abortion,
Treatment for ectopic pregnancy
Every two minutes in America another woman is raped?”
Every 2 minutes
Orthographic processing allows you to visualize letter symbols in your mind’s eye, which helps you decipher that particular type of rhyme. Your brain uses a different area for language processing.”
Orthographic processing
Doctors have the highest suicide rates of any profession.
Doctors' suicide rate
“DH, it’s mommyblog code for ‘my idiot husband.’”
DH
waste five hours riding around in a toy car whacking a small white ball with a stick.
Golf
“The squiggle you saw on the keyfob is a serpent, the Biscione. The cross is George’s Cross. Both date back to the crusades. They’ve been on Alfa Romeo’s badge since the early 1900s.
Alfa Romero
green four-leaf clover, or quadrifoglio,
Four-leaf clover
incel.”
Involuntary celibate
Daft Punk
“Hospitals compete for patients, so if they buy out an existing physician’s practice, that means they get all the lab work, imaging services, surgical support and in-network referrals. And in exchange, the doctors don’t have to worry about paperwork, medical billing or managing EHR—electronic health records.”
Hospitals raid physician practices.
“Do hedge funds get in on that action?” “They’re worse than hospitals. They expect a quick return, so they gouge the shit out of patients, which means that insurance premiums go up, which means that care suffers,
Hedge funds and health care
Henry Lyman Morehouse
grand mal seizure, they’re called generalized tonic-clonic seizures now. There’s two stages: the tonic, where the patient loses consciousness. The muscles contract, which causes them to fall if they’re standing. It’s an incredible shock to the system.
Tonic seizure
That stage lasts about fifteen or twenty seconds. Then the clonic stage kicks in, which is marked by rhythmic contractions. The muscles flex and relax, flex and relax. That’s the longer of the two phases, usually lasting two minutes or less.
Clonic seizure
a deep breath, inhaling for five seconds, then exhaling for five seconds,
Cardiac coherence
the pre-Bötzinger complex in the brain stem,
Controls respiration
the pre-Bötzinger complex in the brain stem,
Cardiac coherence breathing exercises
state medical licensing board. A doctor could lose her career for seeing a trained psychologist, but as with every facet of American life, there was a religious exception.
Religious exception for mental health care
During an assault, the victim typically panics, their fight or flight triggering a surge of adrenaline, their soul filled with terror, their body frozen by shock. The attacker does not panic. He is completely in control, because control is the point of rape. He is the one who memorizes your every movement, every sound, every expression, because unlike you, he wants to remember the details.
Victim v attacker
My great-grandfather was a Flemish jeweler who profited off the pearl necklace craze inspired by the Red Cross Pearls commemorating the 1918 Armistice.”
Red Cross Pearls commemorating the 1918 Armistice
2017 had been the first year that more women than men had entered medical school.
2017 med school makeup
Fewer than 1 percent of rapes led to a felony conviction.
Fewer than 1%
incredibly expensive country clubs was that they were not as well-maintained as an average Holiday Inn.
Country clubs v Holiday Inn
Internet of Things
Domestic violence was one of the most complicated crimes—part assault, part coercive control, part brainwashing, part false imprisonment. Whether
Domestic violence
Isolation, shame, embarrassment, denial, fear of losing their children, of becoming homeless, and the very real fear of violence because the most dangerous time for a victim was when they tried to leave their abuser.
Reasons victims do not leave
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law. RICO at the federal level had originally been designed to take down the mob.
RICO
fourth largest economy in the world.”
California
“Bruichladdich
Scotch and gin distillery in Scotland
all residents generally go through blocks of clinical rotations within their specialty of either emergency medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, psychology, neurology, and surgery.
Clinical rotations
Smith and Wesson .38 single action Chief’s Special,” Amanda said. “It’s the same model Angie Dickinson carried when she played Pepper Anderson in Police Woman.”
Angie Dickinson
The statistics on rape and assault cited in this book come from several sources, including the Archives of Sexual Behavior, RAINN, the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, the US Centers for Disease Control, and the US Department of Justice. Where statistics range, I’ve stated a middle figure. Over 40% of American women and 20% of men have experienced some sort of sexual violence in their lifetimes. Fewer than 20% of these instances were reported to police and fewer still have been prosecuted.
Sexual violence statistics
