Lab Drawing for Life Tweet Someone once asked me to do a lab draw, then they remembered that I’m the chaplain.
Extraordinary Measures Tweet If you read the release you sign for anything, it’ll make you not want to do it. Also, doesn’t the word “extraordinary” seem like it should mean “extra ordinary” as in “more ordinary than previously thought possible”?
My Homey, Your Homey Tweet Both homeopathy and “real” medicine involve a lot of placebo effect. I’m not saying they’re equal, but that often neither will work if the person doesn’t believe they will.
Admirable Women Tweet OK, the joke is good, but looking at the strip now I think maybe I should have left out Penn saying “Um” because the way I drew it too many people think it’s the bear saying it.
Violent Workshop Tweet I love it when seminars are offered on topics like this and the way the flyer is worded you’re not really sure whether they are in favor of violence or alcoholism or whatever.
Never Learn Tweet I think my wife came up with this one while we were watching some TV show that used the phrase from the first panel.
No Bad Advertising Tweet We were on a company picnic to the local AA minor league team (“The Bladder Spasms”) and we kept hearing all these endorsements for foul balls, double plays, walks, seemingly every conceivable play. I suggested we do this (since we are a hospice company). The marketing staff didn’t go for it. The funny thing was that, about five minutes after I suggested it, the local team actually pulled off a suicide squeeze!
It Means, Um … Give Me a Minute… Tweet According to medicine.net: “Abbreviation meaning ‘when necessary’, from the Latin “‘pro re nata’.“
Short of WHAT?!? Tweet This one really took me by surprise the first time I saw it written on a patient’s chart. I could not for the life of me figure out what else “S.O.B.” might stand for.