Twitter Reacts to Today’s News About Queen Elizabeth II

It is question as old and drawn out as a dying empire: is the United Kingdom OK? At the best of times, the answer to this is a solid no. A country that is home to the smack barm pey wet is not a place that is good at feeling normal, and the news that …
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The Worst Medical Takes Twitter Has To Offer

Social media at large is certainly not a medical forum, but its users sure like to pretend it is. In the past couple of years, there have been…situations, one might say, that have increased the amount of medical discourse that happens among non-medical professionals both on social media and in the world at large. It …
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Pet Owners Recount The Dumbest Reasons They Took Their Animal To The Veterinarian

For creatures that are supposed to improve on the quality of our lives, our pets sure can cause us a hell of a lot of stress. We’ve all had the maxim that a dog is not just for Christmas drilled into our heads, but that doesn’t mean that we aren’t prone to a nasty shock …
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Pet Owners Recount The Dumbest Reasons They Took Their Animal To The Vet

For creatures that are supposed to improve on the quality of our lives, our pets sure can cause us a hell of a lot of stress. We’ve all had the maxim that a dog is not just for Christmas drilled into our heads, but that doesn’t mean that we aren’t prone to a nasty shock …
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Manager Causes Outrage By Demanding Employee Come To Work Sick

Every single day, our immune systems are out there quite literally fighting for our lives. There are God knows how many germs in the world, and somehow only a tiny proportion of them seem to end up making us ill (so long as we’re otherwise in good health, of course). This means that getting sick …
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Company Causes Outcry Asking Employees To Donate PTO For Sick Co-Worker

The human body is a fragile, unpredictable thing. We spent all that time hundreds of thousands of years ago developing our brains that we forgot to let our bodies catch up with them, and now we’re susceptible to such a wide range of ailments that we accidentally created hypochondria. However, you wouldn’t think this was …
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People Are Having Nightmares Over This Hospital Therapy Horse

Serious illness is one of the most physically and emotionally challenging experiences an individual can go through. As a result, many sick people will resort to almost any methods to alleviate some of the pain. In recent years, this has allowed for the surge in popularity of therapy animals, who supposedly bring comfort through their …
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16 Relatable WebMD Tweets For All You Hypochondriacs

The other day I was googling some lower back pain that can probably be attributed to years of hunching over computers. A helpful WebMD headline popped up and next thing I knew I was diagnosing myself with lung cancer. This is nothing new. WebMD has been torturing hypochondriacs since before the internet was used to …
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Twitter Thread About Sick Days In The Service Industry Is Depressing As Hell

Most of us have had to or will have to work in the customer service industry at some point in our lives. Whether that be bartending, serving, or working at a grocery store, all of these jobs have one thing in common: virtually no opportunity for paid sick days, which can lead to employees infecting …
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