2009-07-07
Original: 2009-07-07 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A hospital operating room. A red-haired nurse in green scrubs stands beside an operating table on which a patient lies, an open incision visible on the patient's torso. An older surgeon in green scrubs, wearing a head mirror and holding a scalpel, stands on the other side.
Nurse: DOCTOR, HE'S FLATLINING!
Surgeon: QUICK! SHAKE THE EKG!
Caption (below panel): I consider myself a pragmatist.
Votey:
A man (the surgeon, drawn in a loose sketch style) looks distressed.
Surgeon: TOO FAST! YOU KILLED HIM!
A hospital operating room. A red-haired nurse in green scrubs stands beside an operating table on which a patient lies, an open incision visible on the patient's torso. An older surgeon in green scrubs, wearing a head mirror and holding a scalpel, stands on the other side.
Nurse: DOCTOR, HE'S FLATLINING!
Surgeon: QUICK! SHAKE THE EKG!
Caption (below panel): I consider myself a pragmatist.
Votey:
A man (the surgeon, drawn in a loose sketch style) looks distressed.
Surgeon: TOO FAST! YOU KILLED HIM!
Alt text
A hospital operating-room comic. A red-haired nurse in green scrubs stands at an operating table where a patient lies with an open surgical incision, and shouts, "Doctor, he's flatlining!" The older surgeon, wearing a head mirror and holding a scalpel, replies, "Quick! Shake the EKG!" The caption beneath reads, "I consider myself a pragmatist" — the joke being that he treats the patient like a malfunctioning gadget you smack to fix. In the votey aftercomic, the surgeon now looks alarmed and yells, "Too fast! You killed him!", having literally shaken the patient to death.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.