How most people with invisible illnesses are treated by health care “professionals”
The Golden Girls didn’t fuck around
pls watch
honestly i really appreciated this scene when I first saw it bc it took me like two years to get a diagnosis for what’s wrong with me
Dorothy: Dr. Budd?
Dr. Budd: Yes?
Dorothy: You probably don’t remember me, but you told me I wasn’t sick. Do you remember? You told me I was just getting old.
Dr. Budd: I’m sorry, I really don’t–
Dorothy: Remember. Maybe you’re getting old. That’s a little joke. Well, I tell you, Dr. Budd, I really am sick. I have chronic fatigue syndrome. That is a real illness. You can check with the Center for Disease Control.
Dr. Budd: Huh. Well, I’m sorry about that.
Dorothy: Well, I’m glad! At least I know I have something.
Dr. Budd: I’m sure. Well, nice seeing you.
Dorothy: Not so fast. There are some things I have to say. There are a lot of things that I have to say. Words can’t express what I have to say. [tearing up] What I went through, what you put me through—I can’t do this in a restaurant.
Dr. Budd: Good!
Dorothy: But I will!
Dr. Budd’s date: Louis, who is this person?
Dr. Budd: Look, Miss–
Dorothy: Sit. I sat for you long enough. Dr. Budd, I came to you sick—sick and scared—and you dismissed me. You didn’t have the answer, and instead of saying “I’m sorry, I don’t know what’s wrong with you,” you made me feel crazy, like I had made it all up. You dismissed me! You made me feel like a child, a fool, a neurotic who was wasting your precious time. Is that your caring profession? Is that healing? No one deserves that kind of treatment, Dr. Budd, no one. I suspect had I been a man, I might have been taken a bit more seriously, and not told to go to a hairdresser.
Dr. Budd: Look, I am not going to sit here anymore–
Dr. Budd’s date: Shut up, Louis.
Dorothy: I don’t know where you doctors lose your humanity, but you lose it. You know, if all of you, at the beginning of your careers, could get very sick and very scared for a while, you’d probably learn more from that than anything else. You’d better start listening to your patients. They need to be heard. They need caring. They need compassion. They need attending to. You know, someday, Dr. Budd, you’re gonna be on the other side of the table, and as angry as I am, and as angry as I always will be, I still wish you a better doctor than you were to me.
Reblogging for any of my mutuals who’ve ever dealt with Dr. Budd.
“They Want The Swede”, AKA the time Boston offered Washington the 37th and 5th overall picks for the 4th overall pick, and the Caps pretended to consider it but were actually already making a wedding registry for Backstrom and Ovechkin.
[George McPhee: (after being offered the picks) Okay, so, who do you want?
Jeff Gorton: The Swede.
George McPhee: Let me ask, let me run it by these guys. (walks back to the Capitals table, sits down.) They want the Swede. (waits) They want the Swede. (turns to Ross Mahoney) So, what do you want to do? (winks) (inaudible discussion) Huh? Yeah, I know. I’m just trying to make it look like we’re doing something here. Yeah. (more inaudible discussion) Did I tell you that you look marvelous?]
Still not over this; I’m fairly sure I’ve seen porn less filthy than this goal. First game back after 3 months sidelined due to a broken collarbone, too. Those are some skills.
non-hockey readers: this is what I mean when I talk about the thrill of watching someone slice through defenders and make the goalie look foolish.
This kid is, like, 19. This is his ROOKIE YEAR. He’s been out for three months because the Flyers broke him. And this was his opening salvo on his return.
An Archive of Their Own: A Case Study of Feminist HCI and Values in Design Casey Fiesler, Shannon Morrison, Amy S. Bruckman
CHI ‘16: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Session: HCI and Gender
Abstract Rarely
are computing systems developed entirely by members of the communities
they serve, particularly when that community is underrepresented in
computing. Archive of Our Own (AO3), a fan fiction archive with nearly
750,000 users and over 2 million individual works, was designed and
coded primarily by women to meet the needs of the online fandom
community. Their design decisions were informed by existing values and
norms around issues such as accessibility, inclusivity, and identity. We
conducted interviews with 28 users and developers, and with this data
we detail the history and design of AO3 using the framework of feminist
HCI and focusing on the successful incorporation of values into design.
We conclude with considering examples of complexity in values in design
work: the use of design to mitigate tensions in values and to influence
value formation or change.
this is a pretty good summary of what Amsterdam is like
THERE IS SO MUCH GOING ON IN THIS VIDEO WHAT WAS UP WITH THE GUY RUNNING AT THE VERY BEGINNING AND THE ONE CAR HIP-CHECKING THE OTHER INTO A WATERY OBLIVION AND THE SPEEDBOAT AND AAAAAAAAAAAH
And then they destroy the stoop on that building, and just drive off???
did any of y’all see the motorcycle on the sidewalk in the other building
oh my god and the two pedestrians huddling on the very edge of the canal to avoid getting hit by the motorcycle
Saw folks in the notes saying this was from the filming of The Hitman’s Bodyguard, and sure enough…
just moving along like everyone else 