Undercover Hunter

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PCOS currently isn't managed or "owned" by anyone. The people who typically end up caring for these patients are OBGYNs because "ovary" is in the fucking name, not because we are the best people to be managing it. And the reason for that is because, yes, one of the treatments for PCOS and its oligomenorrhea component and protecting the patient from an increased risk of endometrial cancer is birth control and we are the experts in that. But these patients also have other symptoms that need long term management and his is often not what OBGYNs are most comfortable treating (outside of pregnancy) like increased insulin resistance, high blood pressure, heart disease, etc. These patients are often on 3 or four long-term medications that most OBGYNs don't prescribe or manage in our day to day practice. So what typically happens is that a patient has this disorder but ONLY ends up on birth control because that's what their OBGYN can manage and because the name PCOS biases us to JUST treat the reproductive/ovarian component.

The BEST people to manage PCOS now PMOS are the same people who manage other long-term, life long metabolic syndromes like diabetes: primary care providers and endocrinologists with OBGYNs as consultants for patients who want to get pregnant or are planning to get pregnant.

Changing the name makes this a medical problem that is less "hurr durr women problems" and more "systemic metabolic disorder that needs multimodal treatment and affects 20% of half the population" which means it will be taken more seriously by the medical community at large and when it comes to research funding. Patients will also get better, more long-term treatment because we will actually send them to the right people.

mind you, i know that no matter grace's circumstances he would've been sent to space regardless, family or children be damned. he could have had a whole fleet of dogs and it wouldn't have been enough to save him. but something about that line. something about it.

Because the moths themselves don’t eat and only live long enough to mate and then starve to death, the entire culture is made up of children and adolescents. The older children raise the younger ones, with families being made up of hatchmates from different years.

Because molts and eventual transformation into a short lived adult happen on a set schedule, families have a cycle— when your oldest set of siblings cocoon to become adults, you wait at the mating grounds and try to adopt their newborns after they pass. If that fails, you take any ‘orphans’ you can find.

Because death and birth are nearly simultaneous, they have a religion based around reincarnation, and infants with markings similar to a parent are often given their name. Claiming the offspring of a beloved family member is vitally important, because you want to be able to protect their soul and keep them close.

Because it’s hard to track the offspring of your male family members, there are sometimes major fights when a family sees an infant with familiar markings in another family’s clutch.

It fluresces in a UV spectrum that they can see, and every Cassowary has a unique pattern like a fingerprint. Shiny dinosaurs!