A friendly message from your neighborhood ER doc to all gun owners this holiday season:LOCK UP YOUR GUNS YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKWITS. LOCK THEM UP. LOCK UP THE AMMO. KEEP IT ALL SECURE. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK! FUCKING FUCK! FUCK! This isn’t hard. Kids don’t need to die. You are never going to use your gun in an instantaneous effort to defend yourself in your home. If you are soooooo worried, buy a biometric bedroom safe instead of another tacticool accessory. Stop killing kids.

If you make abortion a capital offense, you will kill women. A few will die by the state’s hand, landing on death row because of abortion or miscarriage that is misattributed to elective abortion. Many more will die because doctors won’t risk their lives treating obstetric emergencies that might fall into the scientifically illiterate definitions set out by law.

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If you want to understand the state of things in the US right now, just know these facts:1. I bought body armor for responding to mass shooter calls when I’m on the ambulance. 2. It is backordered for over a month because of high demand since the first week of November.

Hate your health insurer? Not into assassinating the CEO yet? One thing you can try if they deny a claim is asking for the name and state of licensure of the doc who denied your claim. Know that often there isn’t actually a doc doing the denials, but if there is, and IF they give you the info, you can file a medical board complaint against that doc. Rules vary widely by state, but for instance here in CO the board is required to open an investigation for every report.

“Well it started yesterday, but it was the holiday so I waited…”When it comes to chest pain or stroke symptoms, NEVER wait to come in. In the case of #heartattack and #stroke , time is heart muscle or brain tissue. If you have a blocked vessel, every minute matters. There are treatments that are only available in the first few hours, and then the risk becomes too high. Don’t worry, we’re working 24/7 in the ER no matter the holiday. Don’t end up permanently injured or dead because you waited.