http://www.politedissent.com a blog of medicine, comics, television, science and other fun stuff Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:46:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en scene from Hulk #21 (Loeb/McGuinness) I had hoped we were done with the whole pyschiatrist/pyschologist thing, but apparently not. Leonard Samson has long been established as a psychiatrist with an MD, not a PhD. There have been numerous mentions of his attending medical school, including multiple references in Loeb's own Hulk ... http://www.politedissent.com/archives/4980 Heh, heh. Nice one, Foster. Use his "mallet" indeed. Oh wait, you were being serious? Damn. There are about a half a dozen different styles of reflex hammers. The most common in the United States are the Taylor (or Tomahawk) hammer and the Babinski hammer. ... http://www.politedissent.com/archives/4967 In all her appearances, did Jane Foster perform any actual nursing? http://www.politedissent.com/archives/4962 Tonight's episode of House tried to hard to be edgy and ended up losing a coherent plot and any semblance of logical medical care along the way. Abby is a seventeen year old high school senior who becomes unresponsive while on a school outing to the planetarium. Foamy ... http://www.politedissent.com/archives/4949 Sorry Doc, but you don't treat a black eye by putting some sort of cream on it. Think of it this way: a black eye is essentially a bruise around the eye -- and when do you put anything on a bruise? The real treatment of a ... http://www.politedissent.com/archives/4941 The internet is only coming through in fits and starts tonight, so I'm going to have to put off my annual best of/worst of comic book medicine until tomorrow. Here's a scene from the first story in Moonstone's Airfighters #1. The setting is the Normandy beaches on D-Day, and one ... http://www.politedissent.com/archives/4932 With spring just around the corner, this week's public service ad features young Allergy Biggs wondering why no birds have moved into his birdhouse. His family offers their advice, and then their help, to make Allergy's birdhouse a success. Despite being the title character, Binky seems to leave most of ... http://www.politedissent.com/archives/4928 The set-up was clever, but the medicine and final solution were sloppy and average, at best. The speed dating scene was worth it, though Frankie is a 28 year old vegetarian (well, mostly vegetarian) who presents with a sudden case of severe coagulopathy (blood that won’t clot correctly -- ... http://www.politedissent.com/archives/4920 Elizabeth and raininthehills both had the week's high score with 12 points. Overall, TRad and Noether continue their dominance, with 82 and 80 points, respectively. Theta Sigma is third with 57 points, Corien retains fourth with 54 points, and The Erskine holds on to fifth with 52 ... http://www.politedissent.com/archives/4946 A bigoted World War II soldier is gravely wounded, and only a transfusion from an African-American can save him. Sound familiar? It should: it's the defining scene of the justly classic "What's the Color of Your Blood?" from Our Army at War #160, by Robert Kanigher and ... http://www.politedissent.com/archives/4913