The number one for me is the increasing influence of all the woo-woo alternative health stuff, but especially Anti-Vaxxers. Had to treat a case of freaking Diptheria not long ago. Diptheria has been gone for so long they didn't even really teach it to us at med school beyond "this used to be a big deal but you'll probably never see it".


F anti-vaxxers. I don't care so much if their choices only harm them, but when their kids are dying it pisses me off so much.

In 2015, a game of “knock out” started at my local State Fair. and by “game”, I mean that a handful of people started randomly walking up to people and punching them. Fights broke out. At 15, I picked up my 9 y/o sister on my hip and grabbed my 10 y/o sister and absolutely booked it while a crowd was starting to panic. I didn’t even know what I was running from, I just knew we had to gtfo of there RIGHT THEN. My middle sister is legally blind, man. I just wasn’t willing to take a chance.

He pulled and broke the handbrake on my car in a temper tantrum because I had no money for him to buy cigarettes. If it hadn’t literally broken we would have flipped, I was on a curvy 80kmph country road. Our kids were in the back. I stopped the car. He spat on my face, threatened to slit my throat. There were justified “we need to leave now” moments before this, so I still feel guilty that it took him endangering the kids for me to actually do it.

Backpacking in Colombia. Told my group we needed to leave immediately and we went indoors to a coffee place. Watched a group pass by and the owner said oh yeah they would have robbed you and hurt you. I suddenly just felt a need to go. We had set up a rule beforehand that if one of us felt unsafe we all listen, no debate. Glad we did.