Recent Comments

1. almost 3 years ago on Non Sequitur

   The US officially stopped using the gold standard in 1931 so unless you’re 100 years old you weren’t using it either. You need to stop using millennials as a scapegoat to compensate for feeling old and irrelevant in the world when millennials are in their 40s now.

2. almost 3 years ago on In Security

   My orphanage served grits, occasionally, and usually gruel. Good times

3. almost 3 years ago on Pickles

   Is inheritance a thing normal people still worry about? My dad is a high level professional and I’m still not expecting any “inheritance” by the time my parents are dead with all the retirement and probable medical expenses they’ll incur. If anything I’ll “inherit” their junk and have to deal with any remaining legal/financial junk they have.

4. about 3 years ago on Reality Check

   Looks kinda like the awkward middle evolutions of Pokemon

5. about 3 years ago on Wizard of Id

   Honestly as a doctor, I mess up payment paperwork way more than actual medicine. Keeping track of what all the different insurance providers my patients have is genuinely more confusing than keeping up with healthcare guidelines and data.

   I suspect a lot of providers lose patient care quality and time for continuing medical education because they’re spending so much time making sure their notes and payouts are correct.
6. about 3 years ago on Wizard of Id

   ERs universally can’t turn you away legally. They just provide emergent care, and then the costs get distributed across all the patients and taxpayers who can pay. It’s already basically socialized healthcare, just in a really inefficient way.

7. about 3 years ago on Andy Capp

   As a doctor, partners are a great asset. They usually call out anything the patient is lying about.

8. about 3 years ago on Overboard

   Overboard is a comic series that started in 1990. Is it really surprising that it’ll have a few story arcs after literally thousands of comics?

9. about 3 years ago on FoxTrot

   As opposed to people who think they know everything without having studied anything, people researching this stuff find new data and have new situations to work with.

   Having an unchangeable opinion is not a virtue. People who haven’t worked with the data tend to believe people who do don’t know what they’re doing, when it’s genuinely incredible amounts of time and work to come to these conclusions.

   I get this with patients when I radically change my diagnoses with new info. “But doc a week ago you said I had an artery issue.” Yes and that was before I knew a CT would show a 5cm mass in your kidney, etc etc.

10. about 3 years ago on Wizard of Id

    I feel like it’s just as much part of the comic experience that every day we have people asking why there’s xyz in a medieval comic, and people pointing out that it’s a comic.