2011-06-29
Original: 2011-06-29 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with dark skin and dark hair (holding a tablet/folder): UGH. THEY'RE REPLACING HUMAN DOCTORS WITH MEDICAL ANALYSIS MACHINES.
(A woman with reddish-brown hair in a yellow shirt listens.)
Panel 2:
Woman with reddish-brown hair: WHY IS THAT BAD?
Panel 3:
Woman with dark skin and dark hair: I TAKE IT YOU'VE NEVER CONSULTED THE INTERNET FOR MEDICAL ADVICE.
Panel 4 (caption banner: LATER...):
(The reddish-brown-haired woman sits beside a boxy medical analysis machine.)
Machine: IT'S ALMOST CERTAINLY JUST STRESS OR A COLD.
Woman: OKAY, GOOD.
Machine: BUT HEY, MAYBE IT'S CANCER TOO.
Votey:
(Close-up of the machine, in black-and-white.)
Machine: OR MAYBE NOT BUT MAYBE SO.
Woman with dark skin and dark hair (holding a tablet/folder): UGH. THEY'RE REPLACING HUMAN DOCTORS WITH MEDICAL ANALYSIS MACHINES.
(A woman with reddish-brown hair in a yellow shirt listens.)
Panel 2:
Woman with reddish-brown hair: WHY IS THAT BAD?
Panel 3:
Woman with dark skin and dark hair: I TAKE IT YOU'VE NEVER CONSULTED THE INTERNET FOR MEDICAL ADVICE.
Panel 4 (caption banner: LATER...):
(The reddish-brown-haired woman sits beside a boxy medical analysis machine.)
Machine: IT'S ALMOST CERTAINLY JUST STRESS OR A COLD.
Woman: OKAY, GOOD.
Machine: BUT HEY, MAYBE IT'S CANCER TOO.
Votey:
(Close-up of the machine, in black-and-white.)
Machine: OR MAYBE NOT BUT MAYBE SO.
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: a dark-skinned woman holding a tablet complains to a red-haired woman in a yellow shirt, "Ugh. They're replacing human doctors with medical analysis machines." Panel 2: the red-haired woman asks, "Why is that bad?" Panel 3: the first woman replies, "I take it you've never consulted the internet for medical advice." Panel 4, labeled "Later...": the red-haired woman sits beside a boxy robotic medical machine, which says, "It's almost certainly just stress or a cold." She answers, "Okay, good," and the machine adds, "But hey, maybe it's cancer too" — mimicking the alarming, hedging style of internet symptom searches. Votey: a black-and-white close-up of the machine continuing, "Or maybe not but maybe so."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.