#347 – Pressure
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comic
Whenever I see a doctor I wish they could just plug their brain into my body to check out what’s wrong. The whole question and answer interview portion of the exam feels very imprecise. I never feel like I have specific enough answers to the questions and they just guess at stuff until I run out of money.
Tags: dad, doctors, pain
The comic is funny and unexpected and the commentary is spot-on. I feel the same way. Probably why they call it a ‘practice’. No one has gotten it right.
One of the good things about Britain… free healthcare.
@Fenris187 – nothing is free, you just pay for it at a different time. in the US, most of our medical bills go to pay insurance companies used to pay off sue-happy bastards. so here, an elite few actually make money from their doctors visits! woo! (i hate insurance, i feel it is a scam, the system sucks).
on the other hand, while i argue against the idea that Britain has free healthcare, i do think you probably do a much better job of normalizing the costs and spreading them out over the population. such is the benefit of socialized services (a lot of people might think ‘socialized’ is supposed to be a bad word, i don’t mean it that way).
True, the cost is just added to taxes as opposed to being paid separately, unless you decide to go private to avoid the long waiting lists for serious health problems.
Man that would suck. I want to experience everything and I havn’t had my pap-smere or prostate exam yet. Tri-Corders after.
As a kid whenever I saw the add about pap-smears I always imagined like Vaseline on a peace of grease paper. To this day the mental image creeps me out. One day I’m gonna have to watch one on Youtube to get over my phobia but I’m afraid it might turn out to involve Vaseline and grease proof paper.
Somehow, I’m pretty sure you’ll only ever experience one of those.
I get calls at work from insurance companies asking what kind of health care my boss provides. I just tell them the truth, I’m Native American, and use the local clinic. That usually ends their reading-off-their-clipboard routine right quick. Never had to deal with the same company twice.
This is why we need medical tri-corders. That and there would be no more neeed for invasive, embarasing, and unpleasant procedures like pap-smears and prostate exams.
“Well, there don’t seem to be any skeletal OR muscular irregularities. Are you suuuuure your leg hurts?”