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Dr_D-R-E t1_izv3wvy wrote

Reply to comment by NoHandBananaNo in A question on the history of perineal stitches after giving birth by Endorion

Speaking as an obgyn who trained in an extraordinary diverse set of regions:

This practice has been long abandoned in the United States so much so that just about every obgyn and midwife knows the comeback, “sir, how small do I need to make it for you to fit?”

Where does this practice still happen? Certain geographic parts of the world where women’s rights are largely suppressed and where women are overwhelmingly exposed from the medical profession.

The moment you bring up legal threats with your obgyn, what you can expect is:

  1. The possibility of them rightfully dismissing you from their practice as there is an assumed hostile patient-physician relationship which impairs their ability to treat you with an objective and standardized quality of care

  2. Increased risk that they and other medical personnel will limit their exposure to you for fear of being implicated into your threats. In lay terms: you will get less contact with the medical team because they are scared of you making them in a law suit

  3. Damaged rapport which can have any other number of fallout impacts even if as small as a less amicable relationship

  4. Any threat of physical violence will also, often, but you a one way escort by security out of the hospital and ban from L&D and post partum. I have been punched, tackled, but, had patients try to stab me and nurses get that even more than doctors. I don’t screw around with safety and neither should any other medical personnel.

Obgyn cases account for 7 out of the 10 highest lawsuit payouts in US history. We all get sued and it’s often for tongs that are not in or control.

A simple: “please no husband stitch” will get you all the reassurance and care you need, and this can be addressed on your first visit, last visit, or any of the ten months of contract between conception and delivery.

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TheFamousHesham t1_izv3vqb wrote

Reply to comment by TeacherAdorable4864 in Egypt: Portraits of Egyptian Mummies Discovered in Ancient Philadelphia by IslandChillin

Your understanding of culture is so shallow it’s frustrating. Culture is this constantly evolving thing. Cultures mix and transform and create something new.

Part of the reason why the Ptolemies kept a hold of Egypt for the best part of 300 years is their willingness to adopt the traditions of their new homeland. By the time Cleopatra VII was Queen no one (including Rome and her own subjects) saw her as anything but an Egyptian Queen. As for the local Egyptians, the vast majority seem to have been on board these changes and many adopted Greek customs themselves.

Modern DNA analysis suggests that Fayyoum (where these new mummies were found) is actually very homogeneously Egyptian, indicating that throughout its history it was relatively immune to waves of migration.

Whether you like it or not, “ancient Egypt” has been dramatically influenced by waves of its early invaders. These include the Greeks and Romans, but also the Nubian kingdoms in ~1000 BC. The Hittites and the Hixos. The Persians from the east and the Libyans from the west. That’s just how these things work.

As others have said, Egypt is culturally African, Mediterranean, and Arab.

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FoolInTheDesert t1_izv2rwq wrote

Reply to comment by Scarlett_Blaze in The Magic of Makeup: How Ancient Egyptians Used Cosmetics for More Than Just Beauty by StationFrosty

Most of the Pharos looked like the Eqyptian Copts of today,. These people are not Arabs and they are not black, they are not white either if that needed to be said lol. These people are the direct descendants of ancient Egyptian ruling class and the dominant culture during the dynastic and old kingdom periods. Today Egypt has more sub-saharan and north African DNA circulating than they did 2000 years ago when Cleopatra was around and more than they did 4000 or 5000 years ago during the dynastic and old kingdom.

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Law_Equivalent t1_izv24ws wrote

Reply to comment by War_Hymn in The Japanese cigarette brand weaponised against Chinese smokers in wartime by zhumao

From this peer reviewed article it says

"The effects of opium are essentially those of morphine but unexpected toxicities, suck as oesophageal cancer associated with “dross opium” and polyneuropathy due to deliberate addition of arsenic, are problems in some specific regions"

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1360-0443.1997.tb03197.x

If the effects are the same between two different substances but one has more risks than the other the one with more risks is the harder substance, Therefore opium is harder than "morphine ".

Both dextroamphetamine(an ingredient in Adderall) and meth have the same exact effects but meth is known as a harder drug because of the risks of using it.

Don't believe me?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3475187/ Concordant with the literature obtained with laboratory animals, direct comparisons of the effects of oral methamphetamine and d-amphetamine in HUMANS indicate the drugs produce overlapping effects on measures of cardiovascular activity, mood, and drug discrimination 14,1516 Finally, data from studies comparing the two amphetamines on measures believed to be predictive of abuse potential (i.e., drug discrimination and self-administration) indicate that equivalent doses of the drugs produced similar responses, further indicating that the drugs are equipotent 11,12,13 Recreational methamphetamine use is purportedly used in larger doses via routes of administration that produce a more rapid onset of effects (e.g., intranasal, intravenous, and smoked: [17]). The onset speed of drug-related effects is a critical determinant of the intensity of mood and behavioral effects of a drug 18,19. Thus, it is possible that potential differences between methamphetamine and d-amphetamine may only be detected following a route of administration associated with a faster onset of effects

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Law_Equivalent t1_izv08ha wrote

Reply to comment by War_Hymn in The Japanese cigarette brand weaponised against Chinese smokers in wartime by zhumao

"The resulting product is much more concentrated in psychoactive agents, hence has a stronger effect for a given dose. "

If stronger effect for a given dose determines how "hard" a drug is than LSD would be a harder drug than meth or heroin...

Do you think LSD or Meth is a harder drug?

Meth?

Ok than why do you keep repeating this nonsense about potency determining how "hard" a drug is?

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NoHandBananaNo t1_izuztyy wrote

Reply to comment by Dr_D-R-E in A question on the history of perineal stitches after giving birth by Endorion

Speaking from the reads American women's experiences on reddit and facebook perspective:

I don't think pre emptive threats are the way to go either but it's definitely still a thing in places over there.

If I was a woman giving birth I would want to specifically mention it to the obstetrician to feel them out and make my stance on it super clear. Why leave something like that up to chance.

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