Monday PSA: The Pioneer of the Pole
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As promised, the second of two Antarctica themed PSAs. Today: “Pioneer of the Pole.” Just like last week, this is from Dell’s 1957 comic, Four Color #845: The Land Unknown, this time from the back cover.
This PSA is about Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Operation Deep Freeze. The great Alex Toth is listed as the artist on this page.
For conspiracy fans, there seems to be some legitimate controversy whether or not Byrd flew over the pole as he claimed. For even bigger conspiracy fans, there’s a (highly ridiculous) claim that Byrd found an opening to the hollow earth, b...
Source: Polite Dissent - December 12, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Scott Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
Friday Nurse Day: Color Her White
Last week we looked at student nurse Lee Barry’s first appearance in Three Nurses #18. Her second appearance I covered in a previous Friday Nurse Day post a while back. I don’t own Three Nurse #20, so we’ll skip ahead to her fourth appearance in Three Nurses #21.
Be warned that nursing is only a small part of the story this time, as this is a clearly a message comic, and a rather heavy handed one at that. Still, it’s a good topic to visit, even now — maybe even especially now — fifty-three year later.
Friday Nurse Day:
Three Nurses #21 “Color Her White”
Student nurse Lee B...
Source: Polite Dissent - December 8, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Scott Source Type: blogs
Monday PSA: Antarctica – The Frozen South!
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With winter finally getting started in much of the nation (though no snow here in southern Illinois, much to my son’s disappointment), this seems like a good time for the first of two Antarctica PSAs. Today, “Antarctica – The Frozen South,” from Dell Four Color #845: The Land Unknown.
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Source: Polite Dissent - December 5, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Scott Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
Friday Nurse Day: Confidential Diary of a Student Nurse
In 1963 and ‘64, Charlton Comics published six issues of Three Nurses. Each issue of this romance comic features a trio of stories, one featuring student nurse Lee Barry, another starring registered nurse Anne Allen, and a final story with visiting nurse Nancy White. Each issue also contained a few text features and the occasional fill in story with Tom Brent.
Today I’m going to look at the initial story from the first issue of Three Nurses (which is actually issue #18, as Three Nurses continued the numbering from an earlier comic, Confidential Diary).
Friday Nurse Day:
Three Nurses #18 “Confidential D...
Source: Polite Dissent - December 1, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Scott Source Type: blogs
Save Up to Half!
This has got to be my new favorite classic comic book ad. Accordions? Was there a really enough demand for accordions to place a half-page ad in, of all things, a nurse romance comic?1,2
1. Three Nurses #23 (Charlton, March 1964)
2. Probably not, because this is the only comic I’ve ever seen the ad in.
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Source: Polite Dissent - November 28, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Scott Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
Doctor Strange: A Medical Review
A review of the medical scenes in Doctor Strange. There will be spoilers, so be warned!
I. DR. STRANGE’S INJURY
The heart is surrounded by a tough fibrous membrane called the pericardial sac. This membrane fits tightly around the heart, with just a few milliliters of fluid in between the two. If extra fluid gets into the pericardial sac, say blood from a stabbing injury, then a situation known as “tamponade” occurs. Because the pericardium is too tough to expand, all the extra fluid instead pushes down on and compresses the heart. Compressed, the heart is unable to expand, or even beat, leading rapidly t...
Source: Polite Dissent - November 22, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Scott Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
The Great American Smoke-Out 2016
It’s the Great American Smoke-Out today, the annual nationwide attempt to get people to stop smoking.
Here’s a couple images regarding the dangers of smoking, which everybody already knows, right?
Then here’s my favorite picture of misplaced priorities:
Finally, here’s a couple of actual comic-book related smoking links:
PSA: Smoking is for Squares
Spider-Man, Storm, and Power Man Battle Smoke Screen
A post looking at Doctors and Smoking (Source: Polite Dissent)
Source: Polite Dissent - November 16, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Scott Source Type: blogs
Meanwhile, in the Fortress of Solitude
Superman plays with his mineral collection in this scene from Action Comics #550.
Some great samples here, including amnesium, trolium, arsite, vrolite, and delite.
Tags: comics medicine superman fortress as solitude (Source: Polite Dissent)
Source: Polite Dissent - November 8, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Scott Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
Monday PSA: Rock the Vote
With the Presidential election tomorrow, here is an appropriate PSA from Justice League Quarterly #9.
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Source: Polite Dissent - November 7, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Scott Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
Your Weekend Moments of Psychic Nosebleed Zen: Celeste
In Uncanny X-Men #17, Cyclops strands his students in tabula rasa, and Celeste (one of the Stepford Cuckoos) tries to read the mind of some of the local inhabitants with — shall we say — mixed results.
All previous Psychic Nosebleed Zen posts.
Tags: comics medicine nosebleed x-men celeste stepford cuckoos psychic (Source: Polite Dissent)
Source: Polite Dissent - November 5, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Scott Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
Medical Review of Pure Genius, episode 2: “It’s Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider Silk Surgery”
Back to the utopic ultra-technological hospital Bunker Hill, run by tech genius James Bell (trying too hard to pull off Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor) and “seventh best surgeon in the world” (apparently there’s a list) Dr. Walter Wallace.
The first patient is Amelia, who has vanishing bile duct syndrome — a particularly nasty type of drug-induced liver injury, for which transplant is the ultimate treatment. In this case, the story blames Amelia starting and stopping her antidepressants repeatedly as the cause for her liver damage (speaking of blame, notice how the episode more than once makes ...
Source: Polite Dissent - November 3, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Scott Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
Medical Review of Pure Genius, episode 1: “Pilot”
The show wasn’t as bad as I was expecting, but it certainly wasn’t good. It was…bland.
James Bell is a techie wunderkind who opens a private hospital catering to the most intriguing and desperate cases (by invitation only, of course). Maverick — yet world famous — surgeon Dr. Walter Wallace is invited to join the faculty. The rest of the faculty are young more-or-less interchangeable doctors and engineers and only two or three show any spark of characterization at this point.
This is a difficult show to review medically, as the medicine — such as it is — bears more resemblance to ...
Source: Polite Dissent - October 27, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Scott Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
Hawkman #8 and Mustang Sally
Here’s another strange one, this time courtesy of Hawkman #8 (this is the mid-1990s Hawkman series that followed the Hawkworld series, and this story takes place roughly halfway between the Bloodlines and the Zero Hour events).
It starts out when the injured metahuman Mustang Sally is brought to an Emergency Room. Mustang Sally, for those who don’t remember, was half woman, half motorcycle, and entirely covered by a golden metallic skin. She was injured during a riot in the previous issue, so Hawkman, being his normal subtle self, storms into the nearest Hospital, demanding treatment for her.
(This story was publis...
Source: Polite Dissent - October 26, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Scott Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
Monday PSA: Dinosaurus — Giant Defenders!
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This mildly misleading PSA comes from the inside back cover of the Dell Comic adaptation of the thankfully forgotten 1960 film Dinosaurus, about a frozen brontosaurus, tyrannosaurus, and caveman who were all restored to life after being struck by lightning. Hi-jinks followed.
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Source: Polite Dissent - October 24, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Scott Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
Your Weekend Moment of Psychic Nosebleed Zen: Black Widow
A nameless guard gets his brain picked (or is that pickled?) by a powerful yet careless psychic accompanying Natasha on her latest mission.
All previous Psychic Nosebleed Zen posts.
Tags: comics medicine nosebleed black widow psychic (Source: Polite Dissent)
Source: Polite Dissent - October 21, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Scott Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
