Hazards of academia

Comic 9! Fairies are an integral part of the medical world. Or am I looking for an excuse to draw something cute? The world is rife with mystery!

If you get "Aphgincop," I can truly call you friend.

Comic 8! The last post I make as a first year medical student. I know the dysphasia all too well. One time at my internal medicine preceptorship, I went into a room to talk to a patient. On her chart, under "Reason for visit," it read what I thought was "FLU." I began to ask about flu symptoms, coughing, scratchy throat, achey muscles. She denied all symptoms. I checked the chart again. "Are you sure?" "Yes." "You don't have the flu?" "Um, no." Long pause. "Why don't you just tell me what you are in for," I said, completely flummoxed. She then told me about some other problem, one that she was at the office to follow-up on. Follow-up. F/U.

Whoops.

No hawk like a faux hawk.

Comic 7. Sorry for the delay in posts; I have had a phalanx of tests to thwart off of late, and the battered shield and nicked sword must again wearily rise to meet the second wave of my enemy. Namely biochemistry. Which I should have been studying today as opposed to drawing comics.

The C-word...no, the other one

Comic 6. I have no idea where that woman's arms are. Or maybe I just don't want to know.

Auscultate 'em if you got 'em

Comic 5. Introducing Rebecca, alluded to earlier as Beck. Everything that happens in Omphaloskepsis is true and has happened in the medical world - even something as sinister as facius inversus. I realize now how limited ARN was in terms of facial expressions and the humor to be derived therefrom. The third panel here may well be my favorite expression I've drawn. I guess I should quit while I'm ahead. Announcing the premature end of OPS! Thanks for reading! Close your browser, and don't let the html hit you on the way out!



Psyche. Totally got you with that one. ZING