Comments on: Quick Takes

By: Wanderer

Wanderer — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:49:02 +0000

Item #1: It’s not the same in all hospitals. Down here in Texas, the dry-erase board and patient nameplates are still very much in use.

Item #2: To be fair, Tony Bedard acknowledges the Shado/Sandra mixup as “just a good old fashioned fuck-up on my part”. Shado did father a child by Oliver Queen, but his name is Robert; he and Connor have met.

By: Arkonbey

Arkonbey — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:16:31 +0000

Looks like HIPAA didn’t pass in the DCU…

By: Dwight Williams

Dwight Williams — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:53:01 +0000

As much of a supporter of real-time character aging for the DCU characters as I am, no way can I see that panel's dialogue being an accurate remembrance of anyone's about the events in question. Not without a lot of time-travel on "Shado" Tomonaga's part, anyway! Not to mention that wee met Connor's mom during Dixon's run, a lady name of Moonday Hawke.

By: SanctumSanctorumComix

SanctumSanctorumComix — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:38:18 +0000

When did it become policy to take patient’s names off the doorway?

Thankfully, I haven’t had to visit anyone in a hospital in several years (sometimes in a regular room, sometimes in ICU and such), but their names (Last name, First Initial) were always on a little card-slot holder on the wall to the side of the door.

I guess I’m GLAD that policy changed, but when did it do so?
(And is it a blanket country-wide policy?)

ThanX!

~P~
P-TOR

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:33:14 +0000

Ugh, I can’t believe that saying that Shado is Connor’s mother got past editorial. That’s almost Worse than the “Your watching LA Ink” thing on TLC.
I haven’t actually read BoP yet (I buy my comics on Wednesday, then read them on Saturday at work, as it’s the slowest, most deadly dull day of my work week), but this scene doesn’t bode well for the post-Simone period of the title.
The name on the door thing and the mention of the dry erase board remind me of when I used to work in a grocery store. Each register had a list of the names of the cashiers working that day and what their shifts were, as well as similar list for stockers. As a cashier, you needed to know who else was available to work the registers, and you had to know which stockers were available to come up to the front to bag groceries.
We ran into a problem with the list of cashiers – who were mostly female – being easily spotted by customers, as some of the cashiers were cute and many of the customers were creeps who would attempt to put the knowledge of when the object of their “affection” got off work to confront them in the parking lot.
In one instance it was actually a woman who was stalking one of the cashiers, as the cashier was dating the woman’s ex-boyfriend and the woman had issues with “letting go.”
In the end, the solution was to simply cover the cashier schedule with the stocker schedule, as it was assumed that the stockers – mostly male – could take care of themselves.