Comments on: Picture Quiz: Green Arrow #58

By: cb

cb — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 13:49:39 +0000

The same problem as the last 57 issues: the colorist has forgotten that Connor isn’t white.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:17:00 +0000

Why is she reading his arm so close to the stethescope, that is going to have some bad results. Shouldn’t she be reading his pulse with her fingers near his wrist or carotid artery.

By: Jakanapes

Jakanapes — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 21:15:16 +0000

hmm, well the emt at the top of the scene is in default on his student loans, the female emt left her front door unlocked and vandals are even now stealing her spoon collection that her grandmother left her. The front left wheel on the gurney needs oil.

Connor’s insurance card is woefully out of date.

And the guy on the other end of the radio has mis-matched socks!

By: redrabbit

redrabbit — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 16:47:07 +0000

I’m not a doctor, I’m an illustrator, so here are some artistic flaws:

1) Out of context from the story I would never have guessed they are in an ambulance. Why isn’t that guy strapped down, on a “board” and in a neck brace?
I’ve had the unfortunate experience of being transported in an ambulance… and it looked like this http://ambulance.union.rpi.edu/amb3.jpg

2) Thanks to poor shading and coloring, the patient’s right hand seems to be hovering over his chest.

3) The patient’s torso is blocky, off center and seems to meld directly into his left arm.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:21:08 +0000

I’m concerned about having his neck up on a pillow.

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 11:00:26 +0000

She’s listening to his arm because that’s how you measure blood pressure, but the artist (colorist?) left out the actual cuff.

Why is the EMT at the patient’s head, who isn’t touching his arm, telling the other one (who is) the BP and pulse? How does he know? And how is the female one talking to base with no radio?

The hospital having to tell them their jobs is actually the silliest thing to me.

By: David Campbell

David Campbell — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 10:49:39 +0000

He has no nipples. Does that count as two things wrong?

By: TayJK

TayJK — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 07:05:15 +0000

Oh, and is the black guy in the bottom left of panel another EMT, or someone with Connor when the building collapse? Or someone else entirely?

By: Cliff S.

Cliff S. — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 06:51:06 +0000

Oh, yeah. I’m no doctor, but I’m pretty sure that “opioid” + “unevaluated head injury” = “Hell no!”. Unless you really *do* want a reason to bag the guy…

AFAIK, I don’t think any unevaluated trauma patient gets pain meds. Pain is a very useful diagnostic tool for the ER folks.

By: Cliff S.

Cliff S. — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 06:37:34 +0000

Why are they bagging him? Nobody said that he wasn’t *breathing*.

RE: #6 above, it looks like the artist forgot to draw in the BP cuff.

And neck brace hell. He shouldn’t have been moved from the scene without being in a full backboard.