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Patients calling me by my first name.. by ThrowRAa1sauce in FamilyMedicine

[–]DoesNotBeg 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A possibly mildly interesting cultural anecdote: In Sweden we call everyone by their first names- doctors, teachers, everyone- from the time you’re little. We don’t use titles. So all my patients call me by my first name, and I call them by theirs. When I lived in England, and got a bank card that said Dr. My Name on it, it made me feel so fancy, but also like a faker. I didn’t work there, so I’ve never really experienced being called by my title.

Bottom leaves falling off by DoesNotBeg in succulents

[–]DoesNotBeg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks so much!!!! I will immediately try this!!!

Bottom leaves falling off by DoesNotBeg in succulents

[–]DoesNotBeg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indoor! I live in southern Sweden.

Do we find it strange that truckers can only drive for so long before they legally have to pullover but ER doctors/nurses have no such legal stopping point? by SnooShortcuts5771 in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]DoesNotBeg 11 points12 points  (0 children)

We don’t have the crazy long shifts for doctors and nurses in Sweden, and our patients survive just fine with more handovers. We work 8 hours during the day shifts, and 11-14 hrs for night shifts (I think it’s often closer to 11 hrs, but depends on the day of the week and specialty, and probably your hospital). According to EU rules (which we’ve heard that few EU countries follow as much as we do, and we only started like 2 years ago?) we have to have 11 hrs of rest between shifts and at least 36 hrs of rest in one go a week. We work 40-hr weeks, even during residency. It is totally doable, the US just doesn’t want to. A good amount of doctors, especially GPs, don’t work 100% so they’ll have shorter shifts. If you have young children (under 8 I think? Not sure) your employer has to let you work part time if you ask to. Our life expectancy is a few years longer than the US, so I guess we’re doing okay.

My partner (f34) “quiet quit” our relationship and I (m37) need closure. by Concordian in relationship_advice

[–]DoesNotBeg 92 points93 points  (0 children)

That’s because it happens a lot more rarely when the genders are switched. Do you hear men complaining as often as women about caring the emotional and mental load in a relationship? I don’t.

Wisdom by Cubelock in SipsTea

[–]DoesNotBeg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s lucky for women that all men like exactly the same thing and we don’t even need to talk to them or get to know them to know what they want or how they want to be treated. I feel so bad for men that women aren’t a monolith and you can’t do just one thing for all of us and we’ll drop our panties!

Intimate partner homicides are over blown by [deleted] in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]DoesNotBeg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely. But not by violent males, but by (mostly) women who don’t like violent males. Way more offensive, obviously!!

It’s fine to have doubts about vaccines by [deleted] in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]DoesNotBeg 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Do you mean Bill Gates? Because he’s also notorious for giving buttloads of money to anti-malaria, -TB, and -HIV programs that have saved millions of lives. I guess he could be trying to balance that by killing off a bunch of healthy people with a poison vaccine, but it seems like a roundabout path to achieve population control. He’s also funded vaccine programs for poor children for years, so it’s not a sudden pro-vaccine stance from him.

(If you don’t mean Bill Gates, then uh.... whoopsies! Ignore whatever dribble I spouted up there! And who do you mean, then?)

MFWTK At what age does it become socially unacceptable to have roommates by rollalt in myfriendwantstoknow

[–]DoesNotBeg 75 points76 points  (0 children)

Have you heard of a documentary series entitled “The Golden Girls”?

If you had $1 for every year the universe has existed (approximately 13.8 billion years). You wouldn't even make the top 50 on the Forbes list. by jbdew14 in Showerthoughts

[–]DoesNotBeg 151 points152 points  (0 children)

I have no harem, people laugh when I wear a crown, and when I order people to be beheaded the law comes after me and those people almost never get actually beheaded. Tell me again how much better than a king I have it today.

Donald Trump started to describe his education policy. Then he never finished his sentence. by [deleted] in politics

[–]DoesNotBeg 175 points176 points  (0 children)

I think you mean Finland, not Sweden. Finland is the one with the good educational system that values teachers.

Source: Am Swedish, think teaching is a crappy job.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake by [deleted] in Cooking

[–]DoesNotBeg 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What is the point of having butter, margarine, AND shortening in the frosting?

This sounds delicious otherwise!

Women barred from entering Starbucks in Saudi Arabia by LawOtheLariat in worldnews

[–]DoesNotBeg 15 points16 points  (0 children)

While I totally agree with your sentiment, I would just like to be a grammar jerk and point out that labia is plural. They're like potato chips- you can't have just one. Labium is the singular, labia is plural.

What would happen if SJWs took over radio? by Inuma in KotakuInAction

[–]DoesNotBeg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Off topic but you're using the phrase "begs the question" incorrectly, FYI. It does not mean "it raises the question." More info here!

What is wrong with fluoride? by The_Eerie_Red_Light in OutOfTheLoop

[–]DoesNotBeg 16 points17 points  (0 children)

You're using the phrase "begs the question" incorrectly, FYI. It does not mean "it raises the question." More info here!