Insurance Woes

November 12th, 2006

Filed under: Comics, Medicine

I see patients in the clinic all the time who are there to discuss abnormal findings on insurance exams (and the vast majority of the time these are nothing to worry about, just minor variations on labs that were never designed for use as screening tools). But it has gotten me to thinking…how would insurance exams look in a world of super-heroes?

Insurance Rejection Letter

5 Responses to “ Insurance Woes ”

  1. BPK
    November 13th, 2006 at 5:53 pm

    Is the positive tox for super soldier serum urine or blood? That would be usefull to know…

  2. Ashtur
    November 13th, 2006 at 6:46 pm

    Um, shouldn’t the good doc also hit under Body Mass…. sure it’s all muscle, but he’s still considerably over the chart-weight.

  3. Scott
    November 13th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
    Official Comment

    BPK,
    Urine drug screen.

    Ashtur,
    Good point. According to the Marvel Directory, Doc Samson is 6′6″ and weighs 380 lbs. That gives him a BMI (Body Mass Index) of 43.9, well into the morbid obesity range.

  4. mike.
    November 15th, 2006 at 7:23 pm

    Midichlorians. Some days you absolutely slay me.

  5. Vic
    November 16th, 2006 at 11:20 am

    Is calling him ‘Mr Sampson’ instead of ‘Dr Sampson’ a sign of a deep-seated contempt of psychoanalysis and its practitioners? I think we should be told.

    Also, is Sampson a Freudian or a Jungian?

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