Polite Dissent

12 Responses to “ Picture Quiz: Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #3 ”

1. stubb
   February 23rd, 2006 at 2:21 pm
   

   The most glaring mistake I see is that Spidey just got killed by a lame, unimaginative villain and is about to get reincarnated by means of Teh Mystical Cocoon ™, whereupon he will possess claws!

2. Jeff R.
   February 23rd, 2006 at 2:34 pm
   

   Well, for a start, even I don’t think that butt-scratching is part of recognized sterile technique…

3. Scott
   February 23rd, 2006 at 2:43 pm
   Official Comment

   Nor is touching the x-ray. I don’t think that person is actually “scrubbed in” — in fact, as far as I can tell, the person actually scrubbed in is the surgeon facing us.

4. Matthew Craig
   February 23rd, 2006 at 2:53 pm
   

   the first comic book penciler to correctly draw eye protection on all the surgical personnel, a key OSHA requirement.

   See, I used to be a molecular biologist. I worked with carcinogens, teratogens and radioactive material, and I ALWAYS wore eye protection. And it has always bothered me when the CSI axis don’t wear their goggles. Of course, it bothers me that they sit down to work and gsuck gas into their Eppendorfs, but there you go.

   Anyway. I’m not medically trained, bu-ut…

   1. Vena Cava - NOT AN ARTERY.
   2. Would you really waste time doing extensive X-rays and CT scans of a patient who in that chronic a state? Wouldn’t you get him stabilised first?
   3. The lung thing, right? You can’t fill a collapsed lung with fluid?
   4. Also, having consulted Wiki, why aren’t they sorting out the intracranial bleed first?
   5. Finally, because I’m really reaching here: isn’t the anaesthesiologist in danger of slipping and braining himself in all that blood?

   //\Oo/\\

5. Dave Lartigue
   February 23rd, 2006 at 3:08 pm
   

   Judging from the trash on the floor, one of the doctors is working on his novel. DAMMIT STEVE THERE’S A PATIENT IN HERE!

6. Scott
   February 23rd, 2006 at 3:23 pm
   Official Comment

   Matthew,
   Good eyes, but in terms of your third point, I didn’t include that on my list. I think they’re describing a hemothorax (or a hemopneumothorax), where the lung collapses and the part of the chest where it had been fills with blood.

7. Nick
   February 23rd, 2006 at 6:18 pm
   

   I’m not a medical professional, but there seem to be a lack of tubes and wires about. Where’s the anaesthesiologist getting his gas from? What is the screen with the squiggly lines to the right of his head supposed to be measuring?

   Oh, and shouldn’t they clean up the giant bloodstain on the patient so that (a) it’s cleaner, and (b) they can tell if anything under the blood is wounded?

8. Josh
   February 23rd, 2006 at 6:40 pm
   

   Wouldn’t some type of intubation and a chest tube be good, he may not get much oxygen with the collapsed lung but something there to get it to him is better than nothing.

9. DrObvious
   February 24th, 2006 at 12:10 am
   

   Um, why would it be so dark??? That one seems obvious.

10. Cliff S.
    February 24th, 2006 at 12:54 am
    

    And hey - let’s not give him any IV fluids or anything. We’ll just sponge that blood up from off the floor and pour it back into his open wounds.

11. elad
    February 24th, 2006 at 9:04 am
    

    I’m not a doctor but:
    Why are they looking at his stomache/pelvis area when his problems are in the chest?
    and why don’t they try to stop or slow the bleeding when he already lost that much blood?

12. elad
    February 24th, 2006 at 9:10 am
    

    oh and I don’t think that doctor resting his elbow on the left side of Peter’s chest is going to help that collapsed left lung.

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