Bollocks to the Hippocratic Oath on Vice
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Bollocks to the Hippocratic Oath
People Are Awful at Suicide
In general, failing at death is worse than failing at life. If you shoot yourself through the head at the wrong angle you end up retarded. Jump from one floor too low and you're paralyzed for life. One mouthful short of bleach and you’ll have to wait for your stomach to slowly melt. Full story
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Bollocks to the Hippocratic Oath
I Made a Baby
I always regale you with stories of death, disease, sexual perversity, and self-destruction. But sometimes there is a fleeting reprieve in the otherwise grim monotony of bodily failure. Last week I delivered my first baby! Full story
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Bollocks to the Hippocratic Oath
One-Night Stand Syndrome
You know that feeling you have after a night of heavy drinking when you wake up and the pain is matched only by your nauseating shame after realizing there's a stranger's warm naked body beside you? Well, that happens for one man every morning, and it's not because he's a player… Full story
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Bollocks to the Hippocratic Oath
Fat Chance
Worst of all, your chances of getting laid are not only reduced by looking like shit, but it would be quite a feat to get your 40-inch wide leg over, when your dick has long since been engulfed. Get fat, and your own body mass swallows your penis and turns you into a toilet. Full story
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Bollocks to the Hippocratic Oath
What I Know About Death
I haven’t cried for a patient in over five years. I worry I’ve become a cold-hearted bitch who makes small children scream, jabs old ladies with needles, and remains unfazed in the face of relentless suffering. Full story
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Bollocks to the Hippocratic Oath
How to Drink Until Your Ass Bleeds
He drank so much he had scoured the inside of his stomach raw with ulcers, which were bleeding out so quickly it ran straight through the 6.5m of his gut, mixed with shit and leaked all over the street. Full story
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Bollocks to the Hippocratic Oath
Please Don't Stuff Your Cock
Why do men insist on stuffing their dicks with maggots, thermometers, and goldfish? If you're already bored of putting things in your ass, would you be so kind as to invest in a penis plug, rather than making me watch another man piss pus. Full story
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How Much Coke Is Bad for Me?
A dentist friend treated a woman who had done so much cocaine it had rotted a hole between her nose and mouth, as well as perforating her septum. This woman had a 1" by .5" wide black rancid pit on the roof of her mouth, through which her rotting nose would drip. Her mouth was he… Full story
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