Just gonna copy-paste this from somewhere else...

... so apologies to those who see it twice.

While I'm on a rant:

Had to go in to a hospital today to get a blood test done to confirm that no, really, I am low-risk enough to have my goddamn homebirth rather than get dumped into the nightmare of medicalisation.

So.  I'm sitting in the waiting room in the lab for the Women's Health Center at the hospital, right? Population:  receptionist, lab tech, trainee lab tech, three third-trimester pregnant women, and artan_eter.

And because we're a fucking nation of addicts, there's a television in there, turned up too loud, to provide Entertainment for the people in the waiting room.  And because it's the hospital, it's all medical programs, right?

What would you put on in this situation?

What would you put on in this situation IF YOU WERE AN IDIOT?

Yes, a special on medical mysteries dealing with an infant with a mysterious birth defect that her parents couldn't convince the medical establishment was a problem!


Isn't that ... nice.