Just So You Don’t Think I’m Always Negative

January 10th, 2007

Filed under: Comics, Medicine

hospital scene from 52 #36

Here is an especially well drawn hospital room scene from 52 #36. The penciller, Jamal Igle, clearly did his research into what hospital equipment looks like, particularly the all important hospital bed. While there are a few nit-picks I could make (mostly involving tubing), they’re really so minor I think I’ll just keep my mouth shut*.

*Okay, one complaint directed at the colorists. Please stop coloring every IV fluid red. Most IV fluid is clear, and blood is really not used that often (except maybe in trauma or surgical situations). In this case, the IV is specifically referred to as a morphine drip and that definitely should not be red.

11 Responses to “ Just So You Don’t Think I’m Always Negative ”

  1. TayJK
    January 11th, 2007 at 1:36 pm

    I was wondering where, a few pages later, Renee got that big box of Morphine. I thought that stuff was supposed to be highly regulated? But then again, it is Gotham:

    Walks by storage area
    Renee: “Run, the Joker is coming!!”
    Deserted area
    Renee helps herself

  2. Trench
    January 11th, 2007 at 1:53 pm

    R.I.P Vic.

  3. Cliff S.
    January 11th, 2007 at 11:53 pm

    Portable oxygen tank? Don’t hospitals usually have a central O2 line in the rooms?

    And I can’t tell but it doesn’t look like that tank has any kind of humidifier attached – that’d be painful for any long-term use.

  4. John Bishop
    January 12th, 2007 at 1:30 am

    I think it’s the new salsa-flavored morphine — available at finer pharmacies near you!

  5. TayJK
    January 12th, 2007 at 2:44 am

    To Trench:

    He’s not quite dead. Delirious, non-sensical, and apparently in pain (thus the morphine), Renee decides to take him back to the mountains. For what purpose, I’m not quite sure, but she does have a reason.

  6. Scott
    January 12th, 2007 at 9:54 am
    Official Comment

    Cliff,

    You’re right. Hospitals almost always have a central oxygen line. And humidifiers help. I just considered these nit-picks as I’ve seen this scenario happen before when the oxygen system is down or the patient is just about to be, or just back from, transportation.

  7. Wake
    January 12th, 2007 at 4:50 pm

    You know, Vic looks awfully good for a guy who’s about to die of cancer. He’s still got quite a build on him.

  8. Jordan
    January 14th, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    To TayJK:

    Hopefully the reason she’s taking him back to Namdu Parbat is to see the Accomplished Perfect Physician, who already told Ralph Dibny when they met there that he could CURE CANCER WITH A FLICK OF HIS TONGUE.

  9. Marionette
    January 15th, 2007 at 7:56 am

    Shouldn’t the tube stuck up his nose (nasal canula?) be held in place somehow? As it is pictured there, the least head movement is liable to cause it to fall out.

  10. David Gallaher
    October 8th, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    I’m a little late to this post – but at several of the hospitals i’ve been to, they have a pretty strict anti-flower policy. NYU and NYM in Manhattan and Brooklyn, respectively. I think St. Luke’s would be the same.

  11. Wanderer
    March 16th, 2008 at 7:50 pm

    The nasal cannula may be held in place with tape sometimes; in the majority of cases, however, particularly with a non-mobile patient, it’s just inserted and left. (But you’re right; nasal cannuli come loose all the time. You turn your head, the thing leaves your nostrils.)

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