Posts Tagged ‘Doctor’

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“You are going to insert a flexible tube… where?”

by Seraphine Khorana on April 22nd, 2011
Posted In: Comics
“You are going to insert a flexible tube… where?”

I have to wonder, though: What sort of person becomes a butt doctor? I’ve met thousands of people in my lifetime and never once has anyone told me their life’s dream is to be a Rear Admiral. I can understand the desire to be a brain surgeon or somebody that can restore eye sight; I can’t imagine wanting to be up in somebody’s business.
The thing that scares me is– if they go far enough into the colon, through the stomach and past the esophagus– they might eventually find my head. Oh oh.

YouTube video of Katie Couric’s colonoscopy.

Dr. Kylie Johnson’s MADtv colonoscopy. “Alright, Robin, to the batcave!”
“Roll up the windows, kids, we’re going to pass a farm!”

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What am I supposed to do?

by Seraphine Khorana on September 3rd, 2009
Posted In: Comics
What am I supposed to do?

You may have noticed fewer updates to Encore Seraphine lately. I’m lethargic, exhausted, depressed. My chest hurts and my throat burns. I dread turning off the lights at night to (try to) sleep. My blood, urine and xrays are all normal. The doctor thinks it’s likely stress, so he’s given me the antianxiety drug Ativan. I’ve given up coffee and chocolate. I’m not visiting my friend’s blogs like I should. I feel like I’m letting everyone down: my readers, my friends, my spouse, even (especially) myself. I’d like my life back. Haven’t you felt that way too?

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.
Quotation from Richard Carlson

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Friend or Enema?

by Seraphine Khorana on June 24th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Friend or Enema?

I’m in the hospital tomorrow, so my comics might be irregular for a few days. Not that they are like “regular comics” anyway.

Surgeons usually fantasize about wild and improbable surgeries. Someone collapses in a restaurant, you splice them open with a butter knife, replace a valve with a hollowed out stick of carrot– but every now and then some other kind of fantasy slips in. Most of our fantasies resolve when we wake, vanished to the back of our mind, but sometimes we’re sure if we try hard enough– we can live the dream.
Quotation from Grey’s Anatomy, Sometimes a Fantasy

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It’s Not My Crustacean Tubes

by Seraphine Khorana on May 13th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
It’s Not My Crustacean Tubes

Good news/Bad news: Scientists in Australia have discovered a Spider-Killer Wasp. They capture and paralyze spiders, which are then eaten alive by the wasps’ larvae. The bad news is… they are wasps.

Crustacean invasion: Beware the green crab (Juneau Empire)

Oh, sick I am to see you, will you never let me be?
You may be good for something but you are not good for me.
Poem by A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad

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What is the Medical Billing Code for “It was caused by a toilet seat?”

by Seraphine Khorana on November 12th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
What is the Medical Billing Code for “It was caused by a toilet seat?”

Medical care is going to get more complicated. A new medical coding system is soon going to be released. Consisting of over 155,000 codes, ICD-10 will be used to define various ailments and treatments provided by doctors, labs and hospitals. The new system will have, for example, 45 different ways to describe a sprained ankle.
Insurance companies love complexity because every little coding error gives them a reason to deny or delay paying medical claims. Initial estimates predict coding errors will rise by as much as 25%.

Why Do We Need 1,170 Codes for Angioplasty? (The Wall Street Journal Online)
Injured By a Spacecraft? There’s a Diagnostic Code for That. (The Wall Street Journal Health Blog)

A woman went to a plastic surgeon and asked him to make her like Bo Derek.
He gave her a labotomy.
Quotation from Joan Rivers

She has had no rigors or shaking chills, but
her husband states she was very hot in bed last night.
Quotation from Actual Medical Records (Medi-Smart.com)

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