I have caught up. Wow! Tons of posts. I confess, skimmed. I've had good docs, stupid docs, insensitive docs, and amazing docs. That said, I do an excellent job at avoiding trips to the doc office. After a childhood of every month a doc appointment, and every quarter, a visit with another doc, and being poked/prodded/pointed at (college of medicine + rare disease = living classroom. joy (not)), all that said, my feable brain equates that to "I've had my fair share". I know, I should go. but golly, work is so busy, and the frustrating HMO system says I gotta plan the visit MONTHS ahead of time, unless it's an emergency. Blah. Said too much.
ION - yesterday on All Things Considered, there was a story about video game ratings, so parents could get a sense of what was in the game, and if it was appropriate for kids of various ages. Then they started talking about Xbox Live, and how playing with an anonymous person 'on the other side of the world' leads to a different game play, due to misogynist, racist, homophobic, abuse, etc types of comments. The interviewer asked the interviewee if there was a way to complain and get a real time feedback to ban a player. Interviewee was explaining that it wasn't immediate. Interviewer wasn't grasping the process, so he whips up an example. "So, if I'm playing online with a player, whose screen name is, say, POLAR BEAR, and they say something offensive. I make a complaint to Xbox that player POLAR BEAR said this type of statement, what then happens to POLAR BEAR?" (paraphrase). I couldn't help but think, dude! you just said POLAR BEAR on national radio!