I am guessing the guy taking off his clothes is a patient. The box in the background that looks like Gumby is being swallowed is actually a box of rubber gloves. What is about to happen will not be pretty or fun. Hence the counseling gag (pun intended).
The patient appears to be dissolving in front of them.
I’m guessing… guessing mind you… that the folks in lab coats and name tags are medical students and/or residents and the guy talking is their … waddya callit, mentor? senior instructor? supervisor? whatever….. And last guy is a patient getting a routine examination.
And the joke is just that the debasing comment that examining the ugly guy is likely to be traumatic to the students/residents.
It doesn’t help that in Cornered *everybody* even infants, look like they are seventy years old.
This was a LOL for me..
When I was a young thing, modesty bade me close my blinds. Now I do it because I don’t want to hear, “MY EYES! MY EYES!”
(See the quote by Shawn Barnes in section 1 Introduction…)
@woozy — the term for a person who is taking med students on their rounds for training is “doctor.”
ianosmond…. brain fart. I knew that but… well, I was trying to distinguish the difference between a supervising doctor with residents under him, from a doctor that doesn’t have any residents. And I was drawing a blank…. probably because there is no term.
“the term for a person who is taking med students on their rounds for training is “doctor.””
“probably because there is no term”
I think they’re called ‘attending physicians’.
After a traumatic experience(something horrendous involving children, violent patient, mass casualty, etc), hospital employees are debriefed and offered counseling with a chaplain (like me), trained social worker, or clinician. Something about this patient must have – or will- fall into that category for some reason. Other than that, I have nothing.
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I am guessing the guy taking off his clothes is a patient. The box in the background that looks like Gumby is being swallowed is actually a box of rubber gloves. What is about to happen will not be pretty or fun. Hence the counseling gag (pun intended).
The patient appears to be dissolving in front of them.
I’m guessing… guessing mind you… that the folks in lab coats and name tags are medical students and/or residents and the guy talking is their … waddya callit, mentor? senior instructor? supervisor? whatever….. And last guy is a patient getting a routine examination.
And the joke is just that the debasing comment that examining the ugly guy is likely to be traumatic to the students/residents.
It doesn’t help that in Cornered *everybody* even infants, look like they are seventy years old.
This was a LOL for me..
When I was a young thing, modesty bade me close my blinds. Now I do it because I don’t want to hear, “MY EYES! MY EYES!”
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bioe.12441
(See the quote by Shawn Barnes in section 1 Introduction…)
@woozy — the term for a person who is taking med students on their rounds for training is “doctor.”
ianosmond…. brain fart. I knew that but… well, I was trying to distinguish the difference between a supervising doctor with residents under him, from a doctor that doesn’t have any residents. And I was drawing a blank…. probably because there is no term.
“the term for a person who is taking med students on their rounds for training is “doctor.””
“probably because there is no term”
I think they’re called ‘attending physicians’.
After a traumatic experience(something horrendous involving children, violent patient, mass casualty, etc), hospital employees are debriefed and offered counseling with a chaplain (like me), trained social worker, or clinician. Something about this patient must have – or will- fall into that category for some reason. Other than that, I have nothing.