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Sunday Funnies: LOL October 10

Cidu Bill on Oct 10th 2010

Filed in Bill Bickel, Dave Blazek, Loose Parts, Monty, New Yorker, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, doctors, humor, lol | 16 responses so far

Waking Up is Hard To Do

Cidu Bill on Sep 29th 2010

Forwarded from my cousin, who happens to be Head of Anesthesiology at a major hospital (though not this one):

Filed in Bill Bickel, YouTube, doctors | 24 responses so far

Largely ignored by the media was a law recently passed by the Oklahoma legislature that stated that doctors can’t be held accountable — criminally or civilly — for lying to pregnant women about the health of their babies if they’re concerned that the truth might encourage the woman to seek an abortion.

Let’s repeat that: the doctor can lie to his patient if he believes that telling her the truth might lead her to do something to which, though legal, he is morally opposed.

This shouldn’t be even close to a pro-choice/pro-life issue: any reasonable person on either side of the question should see this as reprehensible.

And once we have this precedent, why stop there? Shouldn’t it be equally permissible to lie to a gay patient and tell him he has AIDS, if the doctor believes that homosexuality is a sin and the false diagnosis might cause the patient to commit fewer sins against God and nature?

And come on, nobody can see the downside of telling an obese patient he has type II diabetes. If that gets him eating healthier, why shouldn’t that be the doctor’s call?

And let’s take the concept to its logical conclusion: If a patient has a cancer that could be easily brought under control if treated immediately, but will be fatal if left alone, and in the doctor’s opinion he’s a bad man and deserves to die, then the doctor should have the right to tell him he’s fine and send him home.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Oklahoma, abortion, doctors | 101 responses so far

No Shirt, No Shoes, No Idea

Cidu Bill on Jun 11th 2009

Bud the Chud: O.K. what am I missing here? Obviously he isn’t wearing a shirt or shoes because he is surgery, so is the doctor not operating on him? It looks like he is.

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, comic strips, comics, doctors | 9 responses so far

No Scrubs

Cidu Bill on Oct 19th 2008

The final panel is the actual CIDU, but just as an aside… Isn’t it a given that members of a surgical team are supposed to perform flawlessly? Not really a big margin for error there…

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Jump Start, Robb Armstrong, comic strips, comics, doctors, humor, nurses | 6 responses so far