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  1. My Experience of Trans Ideology and Nursing

    macawake replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    This is way outside of my area of expertise. But gender identity and sexual orientation are two completely different things....

  2. My Experience of Trans Ideology and Nursing

    macawake replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    People only need to look a few posts up to where I quoted you saying that the DSM-5 consider transgender to be a mental illness. That is not what the DSM-5 says. You are now backpedalling....

  3. My Experience of Trans Ideology and Nursing

    macawake replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    In my specialty I seldom have reason to look things up in the DSM-5, but aren’t you misrepresenting the diagnosis Gender Dysphoria when you claim that the DSM-5 considers ”transgender” to be a...

  4. My Experience of Trans Ideology and Nursing

    macawake replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly who do you think it is that polices the media and search engines like PubMed and removes ”disagreeable” medical research? Honestly, you sound like a person who’s wandered off deep into...

  5. My Experience of Trans Ideology and Nursing

    macawake replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    When I saw that really strange little anecdote you told about women who think that being physically assaulted by their partner is proof that the partner loves the woman, I figured you’d come back...

  6. President Biden thread

    macawake replied to Beerman's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    After years of abuse Sam finally leaves the abusive ex with NPD. The ex tells every one who will listen that Sam’s new spouse stole Sam away from the ex using underhanded and nefarious methods and...

  7. I'm a sexless nurse, part 2

    macawake replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Why ”of course not”? What you’re saying isn’t that men and women have quite specific roles, but rather that physicians and nurses have different roles. A male physician is obviously...

  8. I'm a sexless nurse, part 2

    macawake replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    So I guess that means that all OB/GYNs in Australia are

  9. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    macawake replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I find the two of you quite scary. Your government isn’t coming after you for posting Covid-19 misinformation, is it? Your freedom of speech is intact. However the First Amendment...

  10. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    macawake replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    No, we can’t agree on that unless you specify what ”abnormal” cycle thresholds are? What should in your opinion be the cutoff? What risks or disadvantages can you identify if the amplification...

  11. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    macawake replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Of the people I’ve talked to with a Covid-19 diagnosis, 43.79581% were asymptomatic. Let’s call that 43.8%... Since we’re sharing anecdotal data... Which is quite a pointless exercise....

  12. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    macawake replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    How are mRNA vaccines gene therapy? They do not enter the cell nucleus and they do not interact with or alter a person’s DNA in any way. So what exactly are you basing your claim on? I guess it...

  13. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    macawake replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    You start your post by stating that our practice is evidence based and then you go on and make several claims, and fail to provide scientific support for a single one of them. Why should any thinking...

  14. How To Start IVs In The Hand

    macawake replied to LibraNurse27's topic in General Nursing

    When I place an IV catheter in the dorsal metacarpal veins I make sure to immobilize the vein by stretching the skin distal to the vein. The initial entry angle will vary a bit depending on the depth...

  15. Sexually assaulted at work

    macawake replied to Thinkingx's topic in General Nursing

    No, you’re not being dramatic and the patient’s behavior was unacceptable in any setting. I think that the question mark in the thread title should be removed. What you’ve described is an...

  16. Biden to announce US will donate $4 billion for COVID-19 vaccines for poor countries

    macawake replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I’m assuming your most recent post was a reply to my post? I specifically listed several rich countries who have bought enough doses to vaccinate their own populations several times over that I...

  17. Defeated and impeached, Trump still commands the loyalty of the GOP's voters

    macawake replied to chare's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    I find that concerning as well, but sadly I’m not at all surprised. I personally don’t regard Trump supporters as conservatives as much as I view them as worshippers. They seem to view him as a...

  18. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    macawake replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The scenarios you describe here aren’t what I’d call bullying. Self-defense isn’t bullying. To me it would only become bullying or abuse of power if you could control a threatening/violent...

  19. Biden to announce US will donate $4 billion for COVID-19 vaccines for poor countries

    macawake replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Last week I had a conversation with my 25-year-old nephew and he was upset that rich countries are hogging vaccine doses. He asked why he should be offered a vaccine before a 60-year-old nurse with...

  20. COVID Faces

    macawake replied to TheMoonisMyLantern's topic in Disaster Preparation

    There is a whole lot of misinformation in the linked article (manifesto?). I think it’s a good idea to be sceptical of sources like this that are overtly political in nature. From the article:...

  21. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    macawake replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Oh, I don’t think it was only career politicians that he rubbed the wrong way. Besides, some of them made a calculated career move and have spent the past four years oozing unctuous deference.. No...

  22. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    macawake replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Completely anecdotal... three (out of +100) of my coworkers had a very strong response to the first vaccine dose and they all had antibodies from a previous infection. The rest of us had no or mostly...

  23. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    macawake replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I’m just thinking out loud here, but isn’t it a possibility that your immune system is reacting so strongly to your first vaccine dose because you’ve had a Covid infection? It kind of is the...

  24. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    macawake replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Welcome to AN. That doesn’t seem very strange considering we’ve been living with a devastating pandemic with significant morbidity and mortality for almost a year now. That’s what sets your...

  25. The Insurrection: Trump 2nd Impeachment Trial starts 2/09/2021

    macawake replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    If Officer Joe who was on duty and present when the insurrectionists stormed the Capitol on January 6 calls Officer Jill who is vacationing on the French Riviera and tells her that the violent mob...