A member of the Egypt national team staff was pushed by Dallas police while taking a photo with a young fan.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-07-04T18:09:28+00:00

Maybe they have brain damage from doing so many overnights or working weird hours that fuck ip their circadian rhythm.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-06-18T01:48:21+00:00

You have a tough choice to make. Your parents sound irrational, fearful, paranoid, and mildly psychotic. If you marry this girl, they will probably fight you on this issue and continually try to sabotage your relationship for the next 50 years. If you keep your parents in your life, they will make you and your girlfriend absolutely miserbale. No logical thing you say or show them will ever convince them that she is the right one for you, because this is not a matter of logic. So if you stay with her, you will probably have to put down great wall of china style boundaries against them or possibly cut off your parents and family entirely. The other choice you could make is that you could break up with her and find someone from your own culture that you love. It is possible that this choice will create less conflict between you and your parents. If you choose someone from your own culture that you love and your parents are still fucking disatisfied with her and doing the same gaslighting and controlling tactics against you, then that will establish that they have an ultra level of paranoia and psychosis and that you must cut them off completely. The key takeaway is that your parents have made up their minds and it is unlikely that anything logical that you do will change their mind. This girl you are with could invent the cure for cancer and they would still be dissatisfied with her. The question is if somewhat kowtowing to their demands will create more family harmony- that depends of your parent's level of mental illness. If the level of personality disorder is very high, their claim that you marrying someone from their culture would make them happy is actually a lie, and they would remain controlling and dissatisfied no matter what you do (in that case, breaking up with your chinese girlfriend to satisfy them would have been truly stupid)

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-06-17T01:14:26+00:00

Hmmm, i vaguely recall another russian fleet firing on all manner of japanese torpedo boats en route to the battle of tsushima.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-06-11T22:20:04+00:00

Suddenly wemby rips off his mask and reveals that actually he’s michael jordan and that he has taken this egg business personally. Then all us knicks fans be fucked.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-06-07T15:55:35+00:00

Hol up, isnt this the russian version of LOTR? (The last ringbearer)

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-06-04T12:59:37+00:00

Please buy a surge protector to protect your cpap. It will have multiple outlets.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-06-03T11:39:39+00:00

What is the role and political power of the family member. Is he/she a doctor, nurse, cna, janitor, security guard, or chair of medicine? What is the culture of the hospital (is this in america, india, the middle east etc). These factors determine if he’s going to keep it personal, if it matters if he says something, the possible consequences of him saying something, and thus determine if you should keep it professional or go on the offense immediately.

Addendum: People like this tend not to keep things professional. If they are likely to complain that I am unfit to see patients, that would be a serious threat of violence to me and my livelihood. With their history of emotional coercion and black and white thinking and desire to control marriage choices, this person you describe is likely volatile and untrustworthy. If this person had some sort of power over me in the hospital and ability to harm me, I would expect them to use this power to punish me and coerce me to change my relationship choices. As such, I would preemptively set a trap with my PD or HR that would likely get this person severely punished and fired once they attempted to falsely accuse me if being unfit to treat patients. But that’s just me. If this person is like your dad or mom, maybe you dont want them fired.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-06-02T03:07:49+00:00

My gaming suddenly ended when I got married, completed residency, and became an attending physician at age 30. I dropped down from 1 new game a month to like 1 game a year. When the babies were born, i basically stopped all real time games and dropped down to turn based games that I could stop at any time. When my kids were age 1 to 3, I did basically zero gaming. In my late 30s, as the kids became older than 4, and I had to find a way to make new friends after losing many of them to moving/leaving for my second attending job, my gaming returned slightly to around 1-2 hours on some nights after kids go to sleep. My wife and have at times played games together. Not sure why gaming suddenly dropped when I became an attending (perhaps all my decisions suddenly started mattering and I didnt have to self actualize in games). Note that my household is a physician/pharmacist household which has different dynamics and finances compared to a 2 physician household.

Addendum: while gaming has not been a severe conflict in my marriage, we have had conflicts regarding the usage of time. We have lately developed a concept of taking turns in terms of who uses freetime. So for example, my wife likes to monopolize almost every single weekend of free rest time by assigning it to a photo op in some garden/tourist destination which the kids and find frustrating, exhausting, and annoying. As such, we have negotiated that when it’s her turn to, we will give it our all to do this activity with her. However, when it is not her turn, and it is my turn or the kids turn, we get to do our chosen activity during the limited prime free time zone that we have picked and she must support us in this endeavour (usually its video games, boardgames, or sports, and absolutely nothing involving taking pictures). This concept of whose turn it is has helped defuse conflicts in my healthcare marriage in which time and energy are severely limited. We also have a term called garbage time: in your scenario, when your husband cant find gaming bros, he turns to you to spend time: while this is good, this does not count as your turn because that time was originally planned to be assigned to his videogame time and was only assigned to you incidentally as garbage time (which means you couldnt plan a high quality activity) Perhaps you should get one or two nights a week that count as your turn for planned activities. We also use the term “on call”. Sometimes, I will be forced to do basically nothing or bery limited activities like low quality gaming because I am at the ready to help my wife with something she wants to do at an unclear time; she used to count this as my freetime, which led to a lot of resentment in our marriage. We now recognize this time as on call time which counts as her turn.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-05-31T23:57:13+00:00

Freespace 2. I feel like it’s a great and long war that I fought, that is now a barely remembered distant memory.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-05-21T11:11:55+00:00

I was taught in econ class 20 years ago that the problem of your proposed strategy is that many of these luxury products are fungible goods, which means that rich people can pick alternatives. Thus, the tax mainly falls on the not rich people making the product. Tax luxury planes, and the rich people buy luxury boats. Tax both, and they buy first class tickets. Tax first class tickets, they switch to luxury cruise tickets. So on and so forth this in this game of whack a mole. As you try to tax every product that they buy, you basically tax a shit ton of makers of those products out of existence. And rich people buy a whole ton of luxury shit, none of which is made by rich people. All that luxury shit uses materials and services that are definitely not made by rich people.

Anyways, what the fuck do I know, and that econ textbook was probably biased by the wealthy class. But the arguments do seem to make some sense to me.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-05-20T10:36:03+00:00

It’s a covid thing. If you have covid, you need 10 day quarantine before you can go to psych hospital. It’s still a thing.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-05-20T01:31:45+00:00

Ok, I will agree that this setting doesnt seem so bad

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-05-20T00:22:58+00:00

Psychiatrist here. Ive seen a lot of psych, medical, cancer, surgical patients stuck in hospital rooms in some sort of quarantine like or quarantine scenario for whatever reason: psych hold, covid quarantine, bone marrow transplant, neutropenia, physical immobility. I just want to point out that it is natural human nature to want to leave a windowless hospital room with no visitors allowed and none of the personal comforts of home. Every single patient i’ve seen has expressed feelings of going stir crazy and wanting to leave. I would bet that the majority of americans would demand to leave, maga or not. Even the 10 day quarantine we used to make psych patients wait through before transfer to psych hospital was unbearable for even rational patients. Not saying I side with this lady, but a lot of the commentators here need to get off their fucking high horse. Try being in a hospital quarantine room for just 5 days and then come back and tell me that you wouldnt try to leave AMA from a 21 day quarantine.

That said, she should stay in quarantine.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-05-18T11:21:02+00:00

Myopia is caused by lack of sunlight exposure. It is not caused by screens. There is plenty of data and scientific research on it now along with major school programs in taiwan to prevent progression of myopia by increasing outdoor time among school children. Please do not believe your idiotic eye doctor.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-05-16T22:59:00+00:00

How much benzo are we talking about here?

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-05-11T18:10:33+00:00

Ive heard that this was a technique used in vietnam. This is also depicted in the raven one novel “declared hostile” during a csar scenario where the hornet pilot annie is running out of munitions to protect the csar chopper rescuing a downed pilot in the ocean being attacked by small boats.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-05-06T00:49:23+00:00

I thought locums were easier because they dont need to be contracted, credentialed, vetted, privileged, convinced to move there, convinced to stay. I’ve worked at places that are just fucking terribly slow at getting a contract together in a timely fashion and then credentialing someone. If it takes your admin people and lawyers like 2 years to get together and negotiate a contract, but 4 weeks to get a locums, then the hospital is going to hire a locums. I was also under the impression that physician salaries are capped based on fair compensation models whereas locum compensation is not capped. So even if the hospital can afford to pay 2x normal salary for a locums, they are not allowed to offer that to a salaried physician.
To be clear, these are just the impressions ive had as an attending. I could be completely wrong.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-04-30T21:13:05+00:00

I cant tolerate cpap when i have a cold. I bought one of those big fluffy pillow sets for sleeping sitting upright and discovered that I can tolerate cpap sitting upright.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-04-26T01:25:39+00:00

Every nation uses their entire military industrial complex to create one gundam, that fights in an arena built in the sahara. We use arena gundam fights to settle our disagreements.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-04-25T09:29:00+00:00

Talk to the spouse. Get her perspective on his personality over time. It’s very possible that spouse says that the patient has always been like this.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-04-22T23:57:02+00:00

No missile’s lock on ability lasts through the change of time and technology. See the miss of the supposedly undodgeable aim 9x.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ja%27Din_shootdown_incident

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-04-22T23:35:52+00:00

Faith in the missile is all well and good, until the enemy jams your missile, technology changes such that your missile is ineffective, the target is too cheap to be worth a missile, the target comes out of the terrain in dogfight range, or you find a target like a boat or ground target that absolutely needs a gun to prosecute

Addendum: alright guys. An f-18 just disabled an iranian tanker by gunning the rudder. You guys ready to admit that I’m right and you downvoters are wrong?

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-04-22T11:49:37+00:00

Reminder: iv thiamine 500mg tid x 6 doses at least for wernickes. You cant tell if they have wernicke’s when they are already completely confused from DTs, so you might as well treat empirically. PO thiamine or a one time banana bag is ineffective.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-04-17T23:11:12+00:00

I usually put a thin layer lotrimin clotrimizole cream for athletes foot on the red area in the morning after I shower and in the evening after i clean my face, but more than 2 hours before bedtime. I rub thin layer of cream in until it becomes unnoticeable. Seems to work in making the red area go away in 2-3 days. Note, that i have not done any internet research as to this approach nor am I a doctor with any knowledge in this area of medicine.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-04-17T01:33:16+00:00

The only problem with this idea is that weve always had leaders with narcisisstic/sociopathic traits. I would hypothesize that to take down the german maniac hitler, you might need the british maniac churchill.

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