2850: Doctor's Office - Revision history

DollarStoreBa'al: Please don't use this in places that are unnecessary

2025-10-22T14:00:15Z

Please don't use this in places that are unnecessary

172.71.218.214 at 21:37, 25 March 2025

2025-03-25T21:37:46Z

172.68.174.106: /* Explanation */

2025-02-09T07:57:29Z

‎Explanation

LambdaWolf: /* Explanation */ More about linguistic awkwardness of "Welcome to the doctor!"

2024-03-05T04:31:16Z

‎Explanation: More about linguistic awkwardness of "Welcome to the doctor!"

SomeoneIGuess: Safe to assume as complete

2023-11-29T16:36:47Z

Safe to assume as complete

172.71.219.101: /* Explanation */ bedside mri low field -- it's a wonder what signal processing does for 0.1-tesla machines

2023-11-14T13:21:39Z

‎Explanation: bedside mri low field -- it's a wonder what signal processing does for 0.1-tesla machines

172.69.22.241: /* Explanation */

2023-11-12T17:50:13Z

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172.69.22.240: /* Explanation */

2023-11-12T17:49:05Z

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172.69.22.241: /* Explanation */

2023-11-12T17:47:01Z

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BunsenH: /* Explanation */ small MRIs

2023-11-12T02:36:25Z

‎Explanation: small MRIs

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 | "We're like librarians, but for your bones and blood." || A real doctor wouldn't proactively define their profession to a new patient. If they did so, they might say: "We are trained medical professionals who diagnose and treat illness, provide healthcare advice, and help maintain overall health in our patients." || "Bones and blood" is just one focus of medical education, covering topics like their anatomy and physiology, pathology of related diseases, principles of hematology and orthopedics, clinical diagnosis, and treatment strategies. "Librarian" is not an apt analogy for this knowledge.
 |-
-| "Uh-oh! This beeper says you're too hot." || "It seems your temperature is elevated according to this thermometer." || [[File:sick.gif|12px|link=]]
+| "Uh-oh! This beeper says you're too hot." || "It seems your temperature is elevated according to this thermometer." || Cueball's temperature is higher than normal, indicating his immune system is heating up his body to kill the bacteria/virus.
 |-
 | "You should eat some of these little snacks that make you colder." || "I recommend you take some of these fever-reducing medications." || Beret Guy has the medicine already in his hand, suggesting he has only one remedy for whatever condition the patient presents with. Also, in US outpatient care settings it's usually nurses who administer medicine, not doctors, and in either case an order would usually have to be written first. This depends on the medication; in some cases the doctor will have been provided with free samples by the manufacturer, for example.

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 | "We're like librarians, but for your bones and blood." || A real doctor wouldn't proactively define their profession to a new patient. If they did so, they might say: "We are trained medical professionals who diagnose and treat illness, provide healthcare advice, and help maintain overall health in our patients." || "Bones and blood" is just one focus of medical education, covering topics like their anatomy and physiology, pathology of related diseases, principles of hematology and orthopedics, clinical diagnosis, and treatment strategies. "Librarian" is not an apt analogy for this knowledge.
 |-
-| "Uh-oh! This beeper says you're too hot." || "It seems your temperature is elevated according to this thermometer."
+| "Uh-oh! This beeper says you're too hot." || "It seems your temperature is elevated according to this thermometer." || [[File:sick.gif|12px|link=]]
 |-
 | "You should eat some of these little snacks that make you colder." || "I recommend you take some of these fever-reducing medications." || Beret Guy has the medicine already in his hand, suggesting he has only one remedy for whatever condition the patient presents with. Also, in US outpatient care settings it's usually nurses who administer medicine, not doctors, and in either case an order would usually have to be written first. This depends on the medication; in some cases the doctor will have been provided with free samples by the manufacturer, for example.

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 * And MRI machines are indeed very loud, known for producing banging sounds and other noises, often reaching up to 100 decibels, due to the rapid switching of their magnetic field gradients during scans. To protect their hearing and reduce discomfort, patients are typically provided with earplugs or headphones.
-In the '''title text''', Beret Guy acknowledges that the police ''repeatedly'' turn up to look into his 'clinic', but each time he heads off their investigations by returning to Google Maps and relabelling his house "Police Headquarters", thus (by implication) making himself Chief of Police to whose authority the officers must submit - which he may also believe removes evidence for any charges of "impersonating a physician". If this works as claimed, it's another of the [[:Category:Strange powers of Beret Guy|strange powers of Beret Guy]]. But this strategy is unlikely to work in real life; suggesting a Google Maps edit can can take several days to be approved by Google Maps editors, and "Police Headquarters" is not a category selection open to everyday users.
+In the '''title text''', Beret Guy acknowledges that the police ''repeatedly'' turn up to look into his 'clinic', but each time he heads off their investigations by returning to Google Maps and relabelling his house "Police Headquarters", thus (by implication) making himself Chief of Police to whose authority the officers must submit - which he may also believe removes evidence for any charges of "impersonating a physician". If this works as claimed, it's another of the [[:Category:Strange powers of Beret Guy|strange powers of Beret Guy]]. But this strategy is unlikely to work in real life; a suggested Google Maps edit can can take several days to be approved by Google Maps editors (unless Beret Guy is hacking Google and directly editing their map database), and "Police Headquarters" is not a category selection open to everyday users.
 A physician imposter was also featured in [[699: Trimester]], while possibly authentic physicians behaving badly appear in [[938: T-Cells]], [[1471: Gut Fauna]], and [[1839: Doctor Visit]].

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 ! Beret Guy !! Normal Phrasing !! Notes
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-| "Welcome to the doctor!" || "Welcome to my clinic." || Most real outpatient clinics in the US have desk staff that welcome patients, not the physicians themselves. Doctors don't sit behind a desk waiting for patients to arrive.
+| "Welcome to the doctor!" || "Welcome to my clinic." || Most real outpatient clinics in the US have desk staff that welcome patients, not the physicians themselves. Doctors don't sit behind a desk waiting for patients to arrive. The phrase "the doctor" is often used in English as {{w|synecdoche}} for a doctor's office, commonly in the expression "to go to the doctor," but sounds unnatural in this context, especially when spoken by the doctor himself.
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 | "We're like librarians, but for your bones and blood." || A real doctor wouldn't proactively define their profession to a new patient. If they did so, they might say: "We are trained medical professionals who diagnose and treat illness, provide healthcare advice, and help maintain overall health in our patients." || "Bones and blood" is just one focus of medical education, covering topics like their anatomy and physiology, pathology of related diseases, principles of hematology and orthopedics, clinical diagnosis, and treatment strategies. "Librarian" is not an apt analogy for this knowledge.

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	In this comic, [[Beret Guy]] has discovered how to add public labels to locations on {{w\|Google Maps}}. He has used the tool to label his house as a physician's office, and then proceeded to put on a white lab coat and impersonate a physician, making this another comic with one of his special [[:Category:Beret Guy's Business\|businesses]].		In this comic, [[Beret Guy]] has discovered how to add public labels to locations on {{w\|Google Maps}}. He has used the tool to label his house as a physician's office, and then proceeded to put on a white lab coat and impersonate a physician, making this another comic with one of his special [[:Category:Beret Guy's Business\|businesses]].

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 ** this is just one piece of an MRI machine
 ** it's mislabeled
-** it's a small MRI of the kind used to scan only one part of the body at a time, e.g. an ankle or knee
+** it's a small MRI of the kind used to scan only one part of the body at a time, e.g. an ankle or knee; this is called a "bedside low-field MRI" and has a weak magnetic field
 ** "MRI" stands for something else in this case.
 ** Beret Guy is [[Starlight|exercising]] [[Subduction License|one]] [[Tuesdays|of]] [[Job Interview|his]] [[:Category:Strange powers of Beret Guy|strange powers]].
 * And MRI machines are indeed very loud, known for producing banging sounds and other noises, often reaching up to 100 decibels, due to the rapid switching of their magnetic field gradients during scans. To protect their hearing and reduce discomfort, patients are typically provided with earplugs or headphones.

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 ! Beret Guy !! Normal Phrasing !! Notes
 |-
-| "Welcome to the doctor!" || "Welcome to my clinic." || Most real outpatient clinics in the US have desk staff that welcome patients, not the physician themselves. Doctors don't sit behind a desk waiting for patients to arrive.
+| "Welcome to the doctor!" || "Welcome to my clinic." || Most real outpatient clinics in the US have desk staff that welcome patients, not the physicians themselves. Doctors don't sit behind a desk waiting for patients to arrive.
 |-
 | "We're like librarians, but for your bones and blood." || A real doctor wouldn't proactively define their profession to a new patient. If they did so, they might say: "We are trained medical professionals who diagnose and treat illness, provide healthcare advice, and help maintain overall health in our patients." || "Bones and blood" is just one focus of medical education, covering topics like their anatomy and physiology, pathology of related diseases, principles of hematology and orthopedics, clinical diagnosis, and treatment strategies. "Librarian" is not an apt analogy for this knowledge.
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 In the fourth panel, Cueball finally questions whether Beret Guy's claim is accurate, and the facts of the situation are revealed - while Beret Guy wheels in a device labeled "MRI"  (for "{{w|magnetic resonance imaging}}"). He wonders aloud what the MRI is for and excitedly predicts that it is loud.
-* MRI machines are huge and cannot be wheeled in by one person on a dolly. They're typically housed within dedicated rooms and require specialized infrastructure to support their weight, shield their powerful magnetic fields, and maintain their functionality. So either this is just one piece of an MRI machine, it's mislabeled, or "MRI" stands for something else in this case.
+* Most MRI machines are huge and cannot be wheeled in by one person on a dolly. They're typically housed within dedicated rooms and require specialized infrastructure to support their weight, shield their powerful magnetic fields, and maintain their functionality. So either:
 * And MRI machines are indeed very loud, known for producing banging sounds and other noises, often reaching up to 100 decibels, due to the rapid switching of their magnetic field gradients during scans. To protect their hearing and reduce discomfort, patients are typically provided with earplugs or headphones.