You'll never win health care like that, Jesse.

Yay microwave?

Definitely! I have become pretty microwave reliant lately, not having one was cramping my style.

It's not a great highway vehicle, though. It lets a lot of road noise in and feels unhappy at anything over 70.

I would feel unhappy if my sister was driving over 70. She has totaled four cars. To be fair, one of those wasn't her fault and two were a long time ago. This makes me want her in a larger car. The Fit is about the same size as what she's been driving, though. Her driving is not helped by the fact that she has little use of her right side and has refused any suggestions that she get an adapted car. She drives with her left foot in a kind of pretzel position.

Her driving is not helped by the fact that she has little use of her right side and has refused any suggestions that she get an adapted car. She drives with her left foot in a kind of pretzel position.

Huh. How well does that work for her?

I considered a Fit when I bought a car in '11, but I was disappointed by its highway gas mileage. (I ended up getting a new Focus.)

Does this airship's butt look big?

Want to buy your own airship? Get your orders in now

Look at photo 6. But I think that's the front of the airship, so it can't be a butt....

WTF is wrong with white men in their early twenties?

t /listening to the news

Kat- I have never seen that, but I will check it out.

Regarding HIPAA, there seems to be some controversy here about whether professors can use pictures of patients in their powerpoints to students. WHich seems a little nutty, and probably a case of nurses taking rule following too far.

The funniest thing about that presentation was that it was just a generic wound presentation, so there really could have been more a variety of body parts pictured. But it was butts every time!

Regarding HIPAA, there seems to be some controversy here about whether professors can use pictures of patients in their powerpoints to students. WHich seems a little nutty, and probably a case of nurses taking rule following too far.

In the JAMA journals, we have a really strict rule about pictures or videos of patients -- if the person could be recognized from the picture (if it shows their face, obviously, or if it isn't a face photo, if there's a tattoo or a scar that could be recognized on a body part, etc.), we have to have a signed permission form from the patient saying we can use the photo. We won't even get too descriptive in the text. (For instance, instead of saying "A 27-year-old patient," we say "A patient in her 20s." Seriously.)

But it was butts every time!

So if the butt had a tattoo or scar, we seriously would need a signed permission form from the patient before we could use the photo. The AMA is hardcore about privacy.

Next thing you know you'll be lolling about on furs, letting oiled, semi-clad young athletes feed you foreign chocolates

Ooo, the ones with the yummy shoulders.

WTF is wrong with white men in their early twenties?

My 20 something sons say the same thing!

We use lots of real patient charts and so forth in training materials, but either change or pixelate the recognizable stuff for HIPAA and politeness reasons. More often the patient info changed or hidden by us, or the practices, is out of concern for identity theft. It is a huge issue for the practices.

So if the butt had a tattoo or scar, we seriously would need a signed permission form from the patient before we could use the photo.

Maybe that is why she was using butts- less identifiable?

It seems funny to me that they can't use the photo in class, but it seems like they could troop the whole class into the office to look at the patient live. At least that is my experience as a patient.