2011-09-25
Original: 2011-09-25 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (header banner): WHAT YOU THINK BEING A DOCTOR WILL BE LIKE
Man: Doctor! We need your hands! The patient's tumor is growing so quickly it may explode and take us all with it! Save us! Save us with your skill!
Woman doctor (in white coat): I'm on my way.
Panel 2 (header banner): WHAT IT'S ACTUALLY LIKE.
Older person (with glasses and gray hair): Doctor. We need you to drain some pus.
Woman doctor: I'm on my way.
Older person: Take your time. That scrotum's not goin' anywhere.
Votey:
Today's comic features my sister, Candice.
If you read this, please consider it an early birthday present.
Man: Doctor! We need your hands! The patient's tumor is growing so quickly it may explode and take us all with it! Save us! Save us with your skill!
Woman doctor (in white coat): I'm on my way.
Panel 2 (header banner): WHAT IT'S ACTUALLY LIKE.
Older person (with glasses and gray hair): Doctor. We need you to drain some pus.
Woman doctor: I'm on my way.
Older person: Take your time. That scrotum's not goin' anywhere.
Votey:
Today's comic features my sister, Candice.
If you read this, please consider it an early birthday present.
Alt text
A two-panel comic contrasting expectation versus reality for doctors. Panel one, labeled "WHAT YOU THINK BEING A DOCTOR WILL BE LIKE," shows an anxious man urgently telling a serious woman in a white doctor's coat: "Doctor! We need your hands! The patient's tumor is growing so quickly it may explode and take us all with it! Save us! Save us with your skill!" She replies, "I'm on my way." Panel two, labeled "WHAT IT'S ACTUALLY LIKE," shows the same doctor with an older bespectacled person who says, "Doctor. We need you to drain some pus." She replies, "I'm on my way," and the older person deadpans, "Take your time. That scrotum's not goin' anywhere." Votey aftercomic: text on a plain background reading, "Today's comic features my sister, Candice. If you read this, please consider it an early birthday present."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.