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12:06 am
July 21, 2010
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Dave Reynolds
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12:11 am
July 21, 2010
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Jacobus
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Is it me, or is there now a timer above Charon's head which started at 10, and is now at 9?
Possibly some voices in her head saying "Dental Plan, Lisa needs bracers"
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12:16 am
July 21, 2010
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Bounty
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As much as I want to see Charon go postal on the nurse (my personal version has Chibi Charon using a wrench the size of Cloud's Sword) I think it's going to be much more fulfilling to watch Christmas blow in and just take over.
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It's time for another good idea, bad idea:
Good Idea – Getting your Insider character into the comic
Bad Idea – Joining the EOD to do so. Gratz to Jacobus for the New Avatar!
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12:25 am
July 21, 2010
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Jacobus
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Bounty said:As much as I want to see Charon go postal on the nurse (my personal version has Chibi Charon using a wrench the size of Cloud's Sword) I think it's going to be much more fulfilling to watch Christmas blow in and just take over.
Yeah I think that is what is going to happen too. But my god is it entertaining to imagine her going nuts with a wrench.
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6:09 am
July 21, 2010
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Pujardov
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F*cking petty, self-important pencilpushers who have no concept of how being there in that position feels… they all need feet-first encounters with wood-chippers.
Just sayin' 
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6:22 am
July 21, 2010
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Valor
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Jacobus said:
Is it me, or is there now a timer above Charon's head which started at 10, and is now at 9?
Possibly some voices in her head saying "Dental Plan, Lisa needs bracers"
I'd say the nurse's comments on Charon's name are what took the timer from 10 to 9, and then the following exhange took it from 9 to 8.
Of course, Chrissy's probably going to bust in at any moment and take control of the whole situation, but that may not reset Charon's "timer", only stall it. Kid's in a bad way, yeah, when the clock starts ticking, the only thing that can stop it is for the kid to get better.
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"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it." – Ayn Rand
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7:32 am
July 21, 2010
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Lord Boreal
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Considering that this [expletive] just ticked my personal timer down to 5, I'm rather thinking Charon's is down at, say, 2. Assuming she started at 10 to begin with, here's how I see it ticking down.
[Timer:] 10
[Line:] "One of those."
[Timer:] 10 – [Wary inquisitiveness] = Tentative 9
[Line:] "[...]perfectly serviceable common name[...]"
[Timer:] 9 – ([Annoyance at being judged for name] + [WTF, my name is older than paper]) = 7 and falling
[Line:] "[...]public aid[...]"
[Timer:] 7 – [Accusations of being a "welfare queen"] = 6, if you're lucky
[Line:] "[...]personal walk-in clinic[...]"
[Timer:] 6 – ([Flippant attitude] + [She's still judging me] + [Aloof Demeanor] + [Implied threat of not treating my daughter]) = 2, and how dare you?
[Line:] "[...]billing address[...]?"
[Timer:] 2 – ([She's holding that card as if it were HAZMAT] + [I'm going to make you eat that clipboard, b****]) + ([Have to keep it together for my kid] + [Help is on the way]) = 2, by the grace of the Great Old Ones.
I want to slap the annoyed grimace off that nurse's face, too, though. Oddly enough, she had the normal Greek pronunciation for Charon right-ish (closer to "Karen" than "Sharon"), then went for the "changing the spelling" angle when corrected. Sounds like someone was reaching for a "those people" card.
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"Allow your sympathies the length of a table; I recognize no brother."
–The Trauma Coil, Faith and the Muse
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8:26 am
July 21, 2010
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Telonos
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Just a small tiny clarification; she's probably not a nurse. Nurses don't generally handle the paperwork/billing/etc, that's usually like a medical transcriptionist or receptionist or something along those lines. Ya know, the people who got those 2 year degrees in like 8 months via some correspondence course that you're always seeing on TV at 2AM. (kidding! You real medical transcriptionists out there don't flog me or anything.)
Nurses are basically doctors without the money (though they get paid decently, it's still not enough for the crap they usually put up with). Just wanted to put that out there, nurses are by and large, awesome. They're just ridiculously overworked in most instances.
Brought to you by your friendly neighborhood dude-who-works-for-a-nursing-college.
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9:32 am
July 21, 2010
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SporkBot
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Jacobus said:
Yeah I think that is what is going to happen too. But my god is it entertaining to imagine her going nuts with a wrench.
Hee hee…"nuts with a wrench." Points for the unintentional mechanics pun.
Yeah, it's lucky that receptionist is in a hospital. Though the hospital won't be as luck, as Charon is about to put her through each and every load-bearing apparatus. And yes, I too expect Christmas to barge in, cool the situation down (ironic, considering she's not the ice-bitch anymore), and tell off the presumptuous hag. Maybe even point out HER name as being just as "odd" as Charon's.
It kind of takes me back a couple years, when I broke my toe. Couldn't get a hold of anyone and I'm not friendly with the neighbors, so I did the only thing I could think of when in blinding pain: called 9-1-1 (which my eldest brother found hysterical when I told him hours later when he happened to call. I'm pretty sure I apologized for the inconvenience. Later, a doctor advised my that I wouldn't die from a broken toe, so the ambulance was unneccessary.
So I guess the lesson is that should I break another toe, I should get into the car, drive to the hopsital myself (provided I don't get into an accident from the distracting pain), then hop across the parking lot on one foot to the emergency desk. Where's that NBC "More you know" star…?
Oh, and on the note of Gage…
I KNEW IT! I BLEEPING WELL KNEW IT! OOOOOOH, Just lemme reach into the comic and kick him in the grapes with my steel-toed boot! Just once! I promise it won't ruin continuity!
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Do not allow yourself to ever give in to despair or self-pity…that's my job and it's copyrighted, bucko!
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9:54 am
July 21, 2010
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Bounty
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Despite the fact that I'm not only in the Wrench-to-Head club, I'm also its founder, I have the perverse need to argue for the nurse momentarily….
First off, think about your chosen specialty. Mine's PC Networking. Now remember the feeling that you get when you see someone pulling a complete bone-head doing everything exactly wrong. Now add that you've been asked to help. Finally layer over that someone could die if it's done wrong. Sure Charon's a good mom, we know that, and we love her. But not having a PCP (Primary Care Physician) means you aren't getting preventative care, which means you're putting your health at risk.
Charon actually played the part of the nurse two issues back, where Becca was played by a Car, and Charon's current Part went to Mrs. Buriss. Chew on that.
Next, imagine being an ER nurse in Innsmouth. The carp she sees (PUN!) in a day would likely burn the sympathy out of anybody.
AND wrong or wronger, one of the prevailing attitudes in Medicine continues to be that allowing yourself to become emotionally involved leads to stress and poor job performance, so you should at all times maintain a clinical detachment from your patients. Combined with the two above, and we've got a perfect storm.
We now return you to "JUST HIT HER WITH A WRENCH!!" 
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It's time for another good idea, bad idea:
Good Idea – Getting your Insider character into the comic
Bad Idea – Joining the EOD to do so. Gratz to Jacobus for the New Avatar!
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11:39 am
July 21, 2010
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Forsythe
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One thing I haven't seen mentioned in awhile, the receptionist's 'tude is completely understandable when you reflect back to the sidebar of Lin-Lin and Doc Creepy (I don't remember his name, but yeah) about how the binding that keeps the Old Ones in check drains Innsmouth's inhabitants and causes them to act petty and selfish and so-on.
(this run-on sentence brought to you by my need to get off the effing laptop but still wanna get the post out there… and the number three)
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1:17 pm
July 21, 2010
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bababooie
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she should have tooken her daughter to canada where you can get a heart transplant for free
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3:05 pm
July 21, 2010
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Bounty
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bababooie said:she should have tooken her daughter to canada where you can get a heart transplant for free
I hear some wonderful Healing Potions are made from Trolls Blood. and LOOK! I found one….
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It's time for another good idea, bad idea:
Good Idea – Getting your Insider character into the comic
Bad Idea – Joining the EOD to do so. Gratz to Jacobus for the New Avatar!
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3:41 pm
July 21, 2010
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Telonos
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Bounty said:
Despite the fact that I'm not only in the Wrench-to-Head club, I'm also its founder, I have the perverse need to argue for the nurse momentarily….
First off, think about your chosen specialty. Mine's PC Networking. Now remember the feeling that you get when you see someone pulling a complete bone-head doing everything exactly wrong. Now add that you've been asked to help. Finally layer over that someone could die if it's done wrong. Sure Charon's a good mom, we know that, and we love her. But not having a PCP (Primary Care Physician) means you aren't getting preventative care, which means you're putting your health at risk.
Charon actually played the part of the nurse two issues back, where Becca was played by a Car, and Charon's current Part went to Mrs. Buriss. Chew on that.
Next, imagine being an ER nurse in Innsmouth. The carp she sees (PUN!) in a day would likely burn the sympathy out of anybody.
AND wrong or wronger, one of the prevailing attitudes in Medicine continues to be that allowing yourself to become emotionally involved leads to stress and poor job performance, so you should at all times maintain a clinical detachment from your patients. Combined with the two above, and we've got a perfect storm.
We now return you to "JUST HIT HER WITH A WRENCH!!"
I totally can understand where you're coming from (my field is IT as well, so I've also seen my share of boneheaded moves), so you have a valid argument. I still say that it's no excuse for being a mega-biatch, and she deserves to have Charon tear her a new one for talking to her that way. Regardless of how you may view her behavior, the fact is that you have here a mother who is clearly concerned for her daughter and is trying to get her the help she needs. This is not the time to be a jag about her ability to navigate a healthcare plan. I thought Mrs. Buriss did a dumb thing too, but I still felt sorry for her.
The netherworld proximity and soul-sucking location gives her more of an excuse, though sadly you could find this same medical receptionist in any town in the US, I wager.
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7:01 pm
July 21, 2010
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silva
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Gage talking about a daughter. Cut to where Charon and Becka are. CALLED IT! 
Of course, it could turn out to be someone else…but the way it's going doesn't look that way
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8:13 pm
July 21, 2010
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adamas
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Post edited 8:13 pm – July 21, 2010 by adamas
Forsythe said:
One thing I haven't seen mentioned in awhile, the receptionist's 'tude is completely understandable when you reflect back to the sidebar of Lin-Lin and Doc Creepy (I don't remember his name, but yeah) about how the binding that keeps the Old Ones in check drains Innsmouth's inhabitants and causes them to act petty and selfish and so-on.
(this run-on sentence brought to you by my need to get off the effing laptop but still wanna get the post out there… and the number three)
That was Mordeci I think, I'll have to look it up later.
As for the nurse-bitch. My mother, my aunt, and two of my cousins are/were nurses and usually supervisors. If they came up on someone on their shift doing like that Charon wouldn't need to tear her a new orifice THEY would do it for her. (And in my mother's case, HAS, in the waiting room in front of Goddess and everyone.)
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11:18 pm
July 21, 2010
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Lord Boreal
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Post edited 11:25 pm – July 21, 2010 by Lord Boreal
Telonos said:
Just a small tiny clarification; she's probably not a nurse. Nurses don't generally handle the paperwork/billing/etc, that's usually like a medical transcriptionist or receptionist or something along those lines.
Depends on the hospital. The one near my house has the triage center front desk staffed with the administrative nurses – the shift supervisors and such – who handle the paperwork and initial triage all at the same time. The information desk is staffed with MDAAs and the like, but it might just be an RN handling your admission papers. Bad on me to assume, but it does happen.
And not having a listed PCP doesn't mean that no preventative medical care exists – of the four insurance policies I've been with, it was only the HMO (Kaiser) that required me to choose a PCP from day one. The rest were OK with me shopping doctors until I found one I was comfortable with – and with the turnover at the medical facility I used to use, listing a PCP would have been stupid because they couldn't keep a doctor for more than a year anyway.
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"Allow your sympathies the length of a table; I recognize no brother."
–The Trauma Coil, Faith and the Muse
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7:24 am
July 22, 2010
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SporkBot
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Bounty said:
Charon actually played the part of the nurse two issues back, where Becca was played by a Car, and Charon's current Part went to Mrs. Buriss. Chew on that.
AND wrong or wronger, one of the prevailing attitudes in Medicine continues to be that allowing yourself to become emotionally involved leads to stress and poor job performance, so you should at all times maintain a clinical detachment from your patients. Combined with the two above, and we've got a perfect storm.
Technically, that was another mechanic, explaining what was wrong with the car. Yeah, we saw he was annoyed, and he explained what was wrong, however he did so without the utter lack of respect. The receptio-bitch (see what I did there?) not only got needlessly insulting regarding Charon's name (come on, at least she didn't put a dollar sign in it), yet also presumptuous about insurance.
I know what it's like to deal with people that don't know what they're doing. I work retail. A lot of the time, customers need help looking for something and they have only foggy ideas of the product, much less the brand name or whether or not it's frozen or refridgerated. Yet I try and be cordail about it; not letting the redundancy get me too riled. What's more, I know what it's like to have some jerk I don't know tell me what's what about stuff I stock, assuming he's got all the facts (heck, such a jerk is the new store director). It's like someone walking into your house and telling you that you've arranged your furniture all wrong, and he knows best based on the color of his shirt.
I don't doubt that those in the medical field NEED a certain distance, emotionally, in order to function. But the woman accosting Charon took it too far, and she didn't need to take the approach that she did. She could easily explain, even apathetically, what was needed, but she chose the bitch path instead.
Of course, had she NOT, then we wouldn't get (what we're all predicting) a thorough butt-kicking from Chrissy on Friday (maybe Monday, but I'll go with Friday).
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Do not allow yourself to ever give in to despair or self-pity…that's my job and it's copyrighted, bucko!
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8:24 am
July 22, 2010
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Jonn
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Looks like the nursing shortage is about to get a little worse.
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http://mcity.livejournal.com, http://u63r.deviantart.com
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12:29 am
July 23, 2010
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Yoguslayer
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I've never thought of Chrissy helping Charon, but kinda like it more that way. Also, she had always had the ability to get furious very easily, so the bitch-mood is natural and more than justifiable to use now. Go for her, Chris! =D
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