obstetrimetrics

A four-panel SMBC comic. In the first panel, a young person complains to an adult: "I'm tired of being a 'pure' mathematician! I just sit around solving endless pointless puzzles!" In the second panel they declare, "I want to help people right now! I'm gonna go be a doctor who delivers babies!" A caption reads "LATER." Now working as a doctor in scrubs, they tell a pregnant patient: "You will have an integral quantity of babies," then add, "It would be odd to deliver the specific number. Then find yourself a new doctor lady." The joke is that the ex-mathematician still answers in abstract math terms instead of giving real medical information. In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of the deadpan doctor's face delivers the final line: "You're having n-tuplets."