(Like, are patients getting scheduled with no referral process, no GP assessment, no preliminary tests ordered, etc? How do they triage? How do they know if they have the appropriate expertise? How do they know if the patient even requires a specialist?)

Following immediately for more of these pics! (Hi from Canada ☺️❤️🍁)

I don't think "swing voters" have any interest in NPR.

Omg Zardulu!! One of the best 🍕🐀

I quite liked him on Reply All, and still enjoy some of his new show. The one comparing ADHD meds to just "taking speed" left a bit of a bad taste (as someone whose life was massively changed for the better by getting the right ADHD meds...)

I just found this old post by searching "Reply All" podcast (because it was my fav too). Any recollection of who this was about?? Lol

"GET TO THE FIFTH BUFFALO!!!"

"Without a serious medical reason"??? Who tf carries a pregnancy that long and then just decides to shrug and opt out? There's no bottom to their low opinion of pregnant patients, is there...

"No Mother, I have NOT been drinking!"

This is so heartbreaking. It's so understandable that someone who had that experience would be desperate for another way - which in turn leaves them so vulnerable to even more harm from grifters like this who prey on that desperation.

But yeah, good point about other dictators. I guess the suave charmer is an easy convenient Hollywood trope, but you're right that it doesn't seem to play out that way in reality. More often, it's pathetic aging dudes with an undying belief that the world owes them more than they got.

Believe it or not, I don't think I had ever heard of Donald Trump before he first ran for president. (I'm a Canadian and I've never seen Home Alone 2, so maybe that's my excuse?) I can only imagine how much weirder it would have felt to see all this happening if he has already been on my radar.

Same. When I imagined the possibility of fascism catching hold in the US, I (like many) pictured some kind of sky charismatic evil, sharp suit and a handsome smile, charming half the country until he could eventually drop the mask. Not a tacky, slovenly, unkempt octogenarian pervert.

Right? And you just know that it's the same people who say things like "You've gotta give respect to give it"

Ok, I legit thought this was a bronze statue at first, and the lighter part was from passersby running the statue's belly for luck 😊

I absolutely love this trail!

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I agree so much about both Buddha's and Leslie Spit/Tommy Thompson!